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Honeymoons and joint lunches
— effects of retirement and spouse's employment on depressive symptoms | | Author(s) | Maximiliane E Szinovacz, Adam Davey |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 5, September 2004 |
| Pages | pp P233-P245 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Retirement ; Employment of older people ; Adjustment ; Spouses ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | With hypotheses derived from a life-course perspective in conjunction with life event stress and role theories, the authors examine whether a spouse's employment and length of retirement affect a person's post-retirement depressive symptoms, and whether such effects differ by gender. They use a sub-sample of pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 for 2,695 married individuals who either remained continuously employed over time or were completely retired since the Wave 1 interviews. Recently retired men were seen to be negatively affected by their spouses' continuous employment when compared to men whose wives were continuously not employed. In contrast, spouses' joint retirement has a beneficial influence on both recently retired and longer-retired men. However, for recently retired men, the positive effect of wives' retirement seems to be contingent on spouses' enjoyment of joint activities. Among women, effect of spouses' employment occur only among very recently retired wives (0-6 months). These wives report more depressive symptoms if their spouses were already non-employed prior to wives' retirement. These results demonstrate the complexity of retirement adaptation processes and suggest that marital context plays an important role in retirement well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051124201 A |
| Classmark | G3: GC: DR: SN: ENR: CT: 3J: 7T |
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