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The retiree identity
— gender and race differences | | Author(s) | Maximiliane E Szinovacz, Stanley DeViney |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp S207-218 |
| Keywords | Retirement ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Personality ; Sexual equality ; Ethnic groups ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The focus on retiree identity complements research on institutionalised retirement criteria. The authors test whether tensions between individuals' own life circumstances and institutionalised retirement criteria manifest themselves in the extent to which individuals assume a retiree identity, and in the overlap between self-definitions and attainment of institutionalised retirement criteria. Analyses are based on data for a sample of 1,633 from the US National Survey of Families and Households. Work force participation serves as the main basis for the retiree identity, but other life experiences (work history, disability, spouse's retirement, economic status, family history) also contribute to individuals' self-identification. Men's retirement identity seems more closely tied to their attainment of institutionalised retirement criteria and a continuous and successful work career, whereas a variety of life circumstances impinge on women's retiree definitions. Moderately disabled African Americans are more likely to self-identify as partly or fully retired. In general, life circumstances impinge on retiree identity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220213 A |
| Classmark | G3: F: DK: TM8: TK: 7T |
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