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Happily ever after? — An exploration of retirement expectations
Author(s)	Susan Gee, John Baillie
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 2, March 1999
Pages	pp 109-128
Keywords	Preparation [retirement] ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; United Kingdom ; Australia.
Annotation	The dimensions of expectations of retirement and their relationship with gender, current work attitudes, and current leisure experiences were investigated by questionnaire in a sample of 83 Britons and 100 Australians in paid employment and aged 40 and over. Participants also completed the newly developed "Retirement Expectation Inventory" (REI) based on the four modes of retirement experiences - transition to rest, new beginning, continuity, and imposed disruption - which were confirmed by factor analysis. The predominant expectation was that retirement would be a new beginning, with no significant gender differences. As predicted, high personal job involvement, but not high general work involvement, was significantly associated with the expectation of imposed disruption, or was an unsatisfactory leisure experience. Most popular in pre-retirement education were financial management, hobbies, and physical health. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990518222 A
Classmark	GA: DP: 3F: 8: 7YA
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