title: [When continuity is told to us. Mental health and symbolization of filiation in aged persons].
abstract: The author examines the links between the feeling of continuity and the mental health of 25 elderly people who recount their perception of how material and cultural values are transmitted in their line of descendants and in their social community. In considering the aging process as a cultural system, the author builds a model depicting the symbolization of the rule of filiality, for which there are three categories developed in function of manifestations of a more or less strong feeling of continuity or of a feeling of rupture. Beyond their psychological vulnerability and the "deadline" to which they are confronted, these people find themselves in one of the three categories of this model through their relationships with their ascendants and descendants.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tassé
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011792:Quebec; D012945:Social Values; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013561:Symbolism
vernacular_title: Quand la continuité nous est contée. Santé mentale et symbolisation de la règle de filiation chez les personnes âgées.