Activities Matter: Personality and Resource Determinants of Activities and their Effect on Mental and Physical Well-being and Retirement Expectations

Beier, Margaret E.; Torres, W. Jackeline; Gilberto, Jacqueline M.

doi:10.1093/workar/waw034

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“…Theoretical and empirical reviews (e.g., Wang & Shultz, 2010;Zhan et al, 2009a) showed that educational level has a negative relationship with retirement decisions. Beier et al (2016) also viewed education as a cognitive resource and found that those with higher educational attainment are more likely to continue to work after age 65. Based on these findings, we argue that education can not only predict older workers' retirement decisions, but also moderate the relationship between HIWPs and retirement decisions.…”

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Retirement intention of older workers: The influences of high‐involvement work practices, individual characteristics, and economic environment

Jiang

Zhang

et al. 2021

Personnel Psychology

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Research on retirement decisions has invited studies to examine how personal, work-related, and environmental factors interplay to affect older workers' retirement decisions. Drawing upon the person-environment fit framework, we proposed a negative relationship between highinvolvement work practices (HIWPs) and older workers' retirement intention. We further developed hypotheses regarding the moderating effects of gender, age, educational level, managerial status, and external economic environment on the relationship between HIWPs and retirement intention. We tested the hypotheses using a sample of 754,856 employees aged 50 and over from 360 U.S. government agencies participating in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey from 2006 to 2015. The results, based on mixed effect logit regressions and cross-classified modeling, indicated that older workers' experience of HIWPs had a negative relationship with their retirement intention, and the negative relationship was stronger for older male workers, older workers aged 50-59 years, older workers without a bachelor's degree, and non-managerial older workers than for older female workers, those aged 60 years or over, those with a bachelor's degree, and those with managerial responsibilities, respectively. Moreover, the results showed that

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Section: Moderating Effects Of Individual Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retirement intention of older workers: The influences of high‐involvement work practices, individual characteristics, and economic environment

Jiang

Zhang

et al. 2021

Personnel Psychology

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“…Social groups are especially beneficial post-retirement when they involve shared group activities (Haslam et al, 2019). Consistent with the link found between social group memberships and positive anticipation and experience of identity change in retirement, having a variety of activities positively shapes general retirement expectations and contributes to healthy post-retirement aging (Beier et al, 2018), while sharing these activities with a partner can increase relationship satisfaction (Bozoglan, 2015). Interventions pre-and post-retirement that aim to preserve work-based group affiliations (e.g., alumni) and increase the number of social groups and subsequent activities in which people participate (e.g., volunteer pathways, retiree community groups) might provide opportunities for older adults to continue to make positive contributions towards their community and identity after exiting the workforce.…”

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Who will I be when I retire? The role of organizational commitment, group memberships and retirement transition framing on older worker’s anticipated identity change in retirement

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Retirement is an eagerly awaited life transition for many older workers, but some may anticipate their exit from the workforce will result in loss of meaningful work-based activities and social interactions. For older workers more committed to their organization, retirement might represent a threat to maintaining a consistent, positive identity. Across three pre-registered studies of US adults aged 49 to 75, we investigated the relationship between organizational commitment and anticipated identity changes in retirement. Studies 1 and 2 (N = 1059) found that older workers largely anticipated positive changes to their identity in retirement. In Study 2, we divided older workers into two conditions and used a framing manipulation to present retirement as either a ‘role exit’ or a ‘role entry’. In the ‘role exit’ condition, older workers less committed to their organization anticipated more positive changes when they held more group memberships compared to those with fewer group memberships. Those in the ‘role entry’ condition anticipated significantly more positive changes to their identity in retirement than those in the ‘role exit’ condition, but did not anticipate more positive changes based on organizational commitment or group memberships. More group memberships, but not lower organizational commitment, was associated with more positive anticipation of identity changes in retirement. Study 3 (N = 215) surveyed older adults after they had retired, finding that identity changes experienced post-retirement were less positive than those anticipated by older workers. We discuss the theoretical and applied implications of these findings for older workers’ retirement decisions and wellbeing.

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“…We do not present the measurement matrices here for the purpose of brevity. Interested reader can refer to Arthur and Day (1994) We coded physical health by summing the number of health conditions, which is a standard approach to code physical health in empirical studies based on the HRS (e.g., Beier et al, 2018;Barnes-Farrell & Petery, 2018;Wang, 2007) or the SHARE (e.g., Madero-Cabib et al, 2020;Shai, 2018;Siegrist et al, 2007) data sets.…”

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Preretirement resources and postretirement life satisfaction change trajectory: Examining the mediating role of retiree experience during retirement transition phase.

Zhan¹,

Froidevaux²,

Li³

et al. 2023

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Successfully adjusting to retirement represents a major challenge for many older workers. Following the temporal unfolding of retirement process (i.e., preretirement, transition, and postretirement phases), the present study draws on the resource-based dynamic model of retirement adjustment to investigate how a diverse set of preretirement personal resources (i.e., physical health, mental health, financial well-being, family support, proactive personality, and general cognitive ability) impact postretirement change trajectory of life satisfaction through the pathway of retirement transition experience (i.e., retirees’ subjective experience in terms of how well they are adjusting during the transition phase of retirement immediately after the workforce exit). Using multiwave longitudinal data from 667 Chinese older workers transitioning into retirement collected with a prospective design over 2 years, we found positive effects of the levels of preretirement mental health, financial well-being, family support, proactive personality, and cognitive ability on retirement transition experience. We also found positive effects of the changes in physical health, financial well-being, and family support on retirement transition experience. Retirement transition experience, in turn, was associated with older workers’ postretirement change trajectory of life satisfaction. Our findings highlight the importance of the transition phase of retirement, as well as the role of retirement transition experience during this critical phase in explaining the relationships between preretirement resources, in terms of both their levels and changes, and postretirement changes in well-being.

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Activities Matter: Personality and Resource Determinants of Activities and their Effect on Mental and Physical Well-being and Retirement Expectations

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Retirement intention of older workers: The influences of high‐involvement work practices, individual characteristics, and economic environment

Retirement intention of older workers: The influences of high‐involvement work practices, individual characteristics, and economic environment

Who will I be when I retire? The role of organizational commitment, group memberships and retirement transition framing on older worker’s anticipated identity change in retirement

Preretirement resources and postretirement life satisfaction change trajectory: Examining the mediating role of retiree experience during retirement transition phase.

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