Metaphors for Retirement: Unshackled from Schedules

Autor/inn/en	Sargent, Leisa D.; Bataille, Christine D.; Vough, Heather C.; Lee, Mary Dean
Titel	Metaphors for Retirement: Unshackled from Schedules
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79 (2011) 2, S.315-324 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2011.03.002
Schlagwörter	Retirement; Figurative Language; Individual Development; Age Groups; Retirement Benefits; Older Adults; Canada Natives; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pensionierung; Individuelle Entwicklung; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Retirement pay; Ruhegehalt; Älterer Erwachsener; Ausland
Abstract	This study uses metaphor analysis to examine the meanings of retirement for a group of 35 retired Canadian executives and managers. Our analysis identified eight metaphors relating to the meanings of retirement. The findings provide us with a range of insights into the experience of retirement, from loss of purpose and identity to liberation from the constraints of work to retirement being constructed as a new beginning or renaissance. Based on the accounts given by each manager, metaphors were collated and compared across retirees to reveal four distinct configurations that conceptualize retirement as exploring new horizons, searching for meaning, contributing on your own terms and putting your feet up. We discuss the implications of these metaphor configurations for understanding the consumer and producer-oriented meanings of retirement and challenge dominant career constructions of retirement as disengagement and decline. Our findings reveal that retirement appears to be better understood by incorporating future-focused and agentic forms that contribute to different types of identity work in retirement. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10