Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Psychological Well-Being: A Life-Course, Ecological Model
University of Rochester · Cornell University
Abstract
This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between retirement transitions and subsequent psychological well-being using data on 458 married men and women (aged 50-72 years) who were either still in their primary career jobs, retired, or had just made the transition to retirement over the preceding 2 years. The findings show that the relationship between retirement and psychological well-being must be viewed in a temporal, life course context. Specifically, making the transition to retirement within the last 2 years is associated with higher levels of morale for men, whereas being "continuously" retired is related to greater depressive symptoms among men. The results suggest the importance of…
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2Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Life course approach
- Psychological well-being
- Context (archaeology)
- Depressive symptoms
- Transition (genetics)
- Longitudinal study
- Longitudinal data
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