...To what extent and how does economic work relate to life satisfaction? Over the past century, work or a job has become crucial to gaining a livelihood. Writers have also suggested that (at least some proportion of) individuals also have life goals or “life themes” that are central to their life...

... of continuity are depicted in the four sub-categories of life themes, attitudes and values (‘not going against the grain’), relationships and home. Self-affirmation, on the other hand, refers to participants’ self-valuations and social presentation. The strategies of self-affirmation presented here enable older...

..., and actors in order to bring into being a dramatic statement about the burgh as a place and about other themes that run through the culture of Scottish Border life-themes of war and death, loss through emigration, the divisions within the town by trades and crafts, and the overarching theme of protecting...