Perceived Self of Institutionalized Elderly A Gender Study

By : Shilpa Singh, Archana Shukla

Page No: 329-336

Abstract
The present research aims to study the perceived self among Institutionalized elderly. For this purpose, an ex-post facto research was conducted on a purposive sample consisting of 100 elderly (62-72 yrs.) of both genders. To study the perceived self, ‘Who am I?’ (Arkoff, 1985), a projective technique was used. Content analysis of the data brought to fore the fact that the self was perceived positively by elderly .However, in terms of both positive and negative self-perception, there was dominance of self throughout for females as compared to males.

Authors :
Archana Shukla : Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lucknow University, Lucknow.
Shilpa Singh : Ph.D, Department of Psychology, Lucknow University, Lucknow.