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| Civic engagement as a retirement role for aging Americans | | Author(s) | Brian Kaskie, Sara Imhof, Joseph Cavanaugh |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 48, no 3, June 2008 |
| Pages | pp 368-377 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Citizenship ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Participation ; Social roles ; Retirement ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Retirees meeting the authors' definition of civic engagement were identified from a sample of 683 retired older Americans living in a rural Midwestern state. Using a multimodal logistic regression analysis, the authors contrasted this group of engaged retirees to three other groups of retirees: those who were neither working nor volunteering; those who had returned to work in part-time of seasonal occupations; and those who volunteer for fewer than 5 hours per week. Analyses indicated that individuals assigned to the group of engaged retirees were similar across 24 variables, and differed from the other groups by: gender, education level and health status; retirement motives and planning efforts; primary retirement activities; and attitudes about volunteering and returning to work. This research supported the contention that civic engagement could be defined as a formal requirement role, as engaged retirees differ significantly from those who volunteer less, work in non-civic roles, or do neither. The authors also resolved that associated the act of volunteering, in itself, with civic engagement may no longer be appropriate for retired older people. The definition of civic engagement as a retirement role should also include those individuals who return to work in organisations that pursue particular civic activities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819210 A |
| Classmark | IKC: GHH: TMB: TM5: G3: 3F: 7T |
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