Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective: The study aimed at data-based exploration of the subtle indicators of older persons’ attitude towards change, investigated in the light of decision-making process that initiates various self-creative activities. Background: Traditionally, older adults are perceived as resistant to change. Their resistance can be destructive but it can also be constructive if it results from reflections over the consequences of changes and their biographical meaning. In the context of self-creation and agency, attitude towards change is not static – it is subject to modifications due to one’s acts of transgression and self-reflection. Method: The study was constructivist qualitative research conducted by means of intensive interviewing. This method enabled exploration of narrative reconstructions of the respondents’ biographies and identification of the processes of giving meaning to their own experiences and identity formation. The study was conducted among five older adults aged 74-84 years. Results: The analysis of the material led to some conclusions regarding two concepts that emerged from the data obtained: older persons’ attitude towards change and self-creative decision making in old age. Thanks to the data obtained, more information was obtained about attitudes towards changes in the context of different approaches to one’s own agency. Conclusion: The study showed that self-creative decision-making mirrors the transgressive or adaptive aspect of one’s attitude towards change, whereas the reflection upon one’s own experiences favors the development of the sense of agency in olde age. A key factor in self-creative decision making is intentionality, that is, conscious formation of identity in line with individual vision of self and the world. The results indicate that the ability to thoughtfully determine one’s attitude towards a change is a determinant of self-creative decisions, whereas lack of reflection leads to passive attitude and existential stagnation..
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".