Does retirement hurt well-being? Factors influencing self-esteem and depression among retirees and workers
Does retirement hurt well-being? Factors influencing self-esteem and depression among retirees and workers
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/36.5.649
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发表时间：
1996-10-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Fernandez, ME
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作者：
Reitzes, DC;Mutran, EJ;Fernandez, ME
一组来自罗利-达勒姆-查佩尔山大都市区的老年工人被跟踪了两年，以探索退休的社会心理后果。有三项调查结果特别令人感兴趣。首先，当我们将退休工人与继续工作的工人分开，并在两年的时间间隔内比较他们的自尊和抑郁分数时，我们发现两组的自尊分数没有变化，但退休工人的抑郁分数下降了。关于退休人员和继续工作的人之间的差异，回归分析显示，退休对自尊有积极影响，对抑郁有消极影响。此外，较早的工人身份的含义有更强的负面影响的抑郁评分的受访者谁继续工作比那些谁退休。
A set of older workers from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area were followed for two years in order to explore the social psychological consequences of retirement. Three findings are of particular interest. First, when we separated workers who retired from those who continued to work and compared their self-esteem and depression scores over the two-year interval, we found that self-esteem scores did not change for either group, but that depression scores declined for workers who retired. Turning to differences between retirees and those who continued to work, regression analyses revealed that retirement had a positive influence on self-esteem and a negative influence on depression. In addition, earlier worker identity meanings had a stronger negative effect on the depression scores of respondents who continued to work than on those who retired.