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Retirement transitions, gender and psychological well-being
— a life-course, ecological model | | Author(s) | Jungmeen E Kim, Phyllis Moen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 3, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp P212-P222 |
| Keywords | Retirement ; Older men ; Older women ; Well being ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from two waves of the Cornell Retirement and Well-Being Study were used to investigate the relationship between retirement transitions and subsequent psychological well-being of 458 married men and women (aged 50-72) who were either still in their primary career jobs, retired, or had just made the transition into retirement over the preceding 2 years. The findings show the relationship between retirement and psychological well-being must be viewed as a temporal, life course context. Specifically, making the transition to retirement within the last 2 years is associated with higher levels of morale for men, whereas being "continuously" retired is related to greater depressive symptoms among men. The results suggest the importance of examining various resources and contexts surrounding retirement transitions (gender, prior level of psychological well-being, spouses' circumstance, and changes in personal control, marital quality, subjective health, and income adequacy) to understand the dynamics of the retirement transition and its relationship to psychological well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020617203 A |
| Classmark | G3: BC: BD: D:F:5HH: 3J: 7T |
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