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Anticipatory socialization for retirement
— a multilevel dyadic model | | Author(s) | Angela L Curl, Jerry G Ingram |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 36, no 4, July-September 2013 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, July-September 2013 |
| Pages | pp 375-393 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Employees ; Retirement ; Ageing process ; Married couples ; Adjustment ; Theory. |
| Annotation | Role theory, widely used to examine human behaviour, has often been used to describe the transition from work to retirement. Anticipatory socialisation, a role theory concept, describes the process that occurs prior to role transitions and assists in that transition by helping individuals learn the norms for the new role. However not all workers engage in retirement planning. Lack of retirement planning is of concern because those individuals who do not plan for major life transitions tend to be less successful in adjusting to role changes. Data from the Health and Retirement Study were used: selection criteria required participants to be age 45 or older, working full- or part-time and have complete data for the study variables. Multilevel modelling results of dyadic data from the Health and Retirement Study indicated that older age, being white, higher income, greater retirement wealth and looking forward to retirement predicted greater anticipatory socialisation (i.e. thinking about and discussing retirement) by both husbands and wives. For wives only, having a health problem limiting work, higher spouse occupational status and having a spouse who was looking forward to retirement predicted more anticipatory socialisation. For husbands only, higher education, higher depressive symptomatology and lower occupational status predicted more anticipatory socialisation. This study found evidence of spousal congruence, with husbands on average engaging in more anticipatory socialisation than wives. These findings identify couples that could most benefit from targeted efforts to increase anticipatory socialisation, which predicts better retirement adjustment and satisfaction. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130728202 A |
| Classmark | WK: G3: BG: SM: DR: 4D |
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