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| Anticipated and experienced changes in activities after husbands retire | | Author(s) | Tanya R Fitzpatrick, Barbara H Vinick, Suzanne Bushfield |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 46, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 69-84 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Husbands ; Retirement ; Housework ; Activities of older people ; Life satisfaction ; Married couples ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As an element of anticipatory socialisation, ability to predict future roles accurately may affect subsequent adaptation. Part of a larger study of retirement and marital quality (the Normative Aging Study), this longitudinal research with 61 couples examined husbands' and wives' anticipations of change (more, less, or same) in six individual or joint activities following husbands' retirement, and compared them with couples' reported experiences a year after husbands had retired. With the exception of household tasks, continuity in levels of activity from pre- to post-retirement was greater than couples had anticipated. Cross-classification of responses at baseline and Time 2 indicated only modest congruence between anticipated and experienced change in activities. Accuracy of anticipation was not related significantly to retirement satisfaction as hypothesised, but direction of retirement satisfaction mean scores - especially among wives - suggest that future testing would be warranted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070110010 A |
| Classmark | SNA: G3: GH6: G: F:5HH: SM: 3J: 7T |
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