Change and Persistence of Personal Identities after the Transition to Retirement

Autor/in	Teuscher, Ursina
Titel	Change and Persistence of Personal Identities after the Transition to Retirement
Quelle	In: International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 70 (2010) 1, S.89-106 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-4150
Schlagwörter	Retirement; Performance Factors; Predictor Variables; Personality Change; Persistence; Quality of Life; Social Indicators; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Social Values; Professional Personnel; Individual Characteristics; Older Adults; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pensionierung; Leistungsindikator; Prädiktor; Persönlichkeitstest; Persönlichkeitsveränderung; Ausdauer; Lebensqualität; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Ausland; Fragebogen; Sozialer Wert; Personalbestand; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Älterer Erwachsener; Schweiz
Abstract	This study addresses the question of how retired people's self-image differs from that of working people, and what factors predict people's self-definition as professionals or retirees. Seven hundred ninety-two Swiss persons aged 58-70 (386 men, 406 women; 349 not retired, 443 retired) were asked to rate the importance of different self-description domains (such as profession, family-roles, personal values, etc.). Results indicated that the profession domain remains important for self-description even after retirement, to the extent that retirement status does not predict the importance of the professional identity at all. Rather, consistent with social identity theory, the importance of the profession for self-description is best predicted by the status of the (former or current) job. The importance of the retirement status for self-definition is predicted best by a positive attitude toward aging. In general, retired respondents rated more domains of self-description as important than did not-yet-retired respondents, and no domain was less important after retirement. In other words, identity diversity was higher for the retired than for the not-yet-retired persons. In addition, high identity diversity correlated with a high satisfaction across different life domains. (Contains 3 footnotes, 3 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10