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| Mechanisms of the effect of involuntary retirement on older adults' self-related health and mental health | | Author(s) | Min-Kyoung Rhee, Michalle E Mor Barak, William T Gallo |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 59, no 1, January 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January 2016 |
| Pages | pp 35-55 |
| Source | www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Redundancy ; Retirement ; Depression ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Quantitative studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examined mechanisms of the effect of involuntary retirement on self-rated health and mental health among adults aged 50 or older. Using two waves of the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS, 2006 and 2010), they selected a sample of 1,195 individuals working for pay at baseline who responded to a lifestyle questionnaire in both waves. Regression-based path analyses were conducted to test the mediating effects of financial control, positive and negative family relationships, and social integration on the relationship between involuntary retirement and self-rated health and mental health. Results of mediation analyses indicated that transition to involuntary retirement was directly negatively associated with subsequent self-rated health and indirectly negatively associated with mental health via perception of less financial control. Voluntary retirement was indirectly positively associated with both self-rated and mental health via perception of more financial control. No significant direct or indirect effects of retirement were found when retirement was measured with an aggregate measure without specifying its voluntariness. Findings emphasise the importance of specifying the voluntariness of retirement, and of recognising the heterogeneity in the mechanisms of involuntary and voluntary retirement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160429232 A |
| Classmark | WI: G3: ENR: CC: D:F:5HH: 3DQ: 7T |
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