| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
The transition to retirement
— stages and factors that influence retirement adjustment | | Author(s) | Donald C Reitzes, Elizabeth J Mutran |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 59, no 1, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 63-84 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Preparation [retirement] ; Retirement ; Adjustment ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | More than 800 older workers (men and women, aged 58 to 64) from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina metropolitan area were followed from pre-retirement to 24 months post-retirement. The aim was to explore stages in retirement and the impact of social psychological, social background, and gender factors on adjustment to retirement. The authors found general support for Atchley's model of retirement adjustment (1976). The factors that influence retirement adjustment in the data revealed that pre-retirement self-esteem and friend identity meanings, as well as pension eligibility increased positive attitudes toward retirement at 6 months, 12 months and 24 months post-retirement. In addition, retirement planning and voluntary retirement increased positive attitudes toward retirement earlier, but not later, in the first two years of retirement. However, poor health decreased positive attitudes toward retirement later rather than earlier in the first two years of retirement. There were only limited gender effects. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041026204 A |
| Classmark | GA: G3: DR: 3J: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|