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- Title
Happily retired! A consensual qualitative research to elaborate theory on resources' categorization, processes and caravans for successful retirement adjustment.
- Authors
Froidevaux, Ariane; Curchod, Géraldine; Degli‐Antoni, Saskia; Maggiori, Christian; Rossier, Jérôme
- Abstract
Successfully adjusting to retirement, in terms of achieving psychological comfort with one's retirement life, represents a major challenge for older workers. Although current literature emphasizes that it may depend on the availability and fluctuation of specific resources, little is known about which types and how resources allow recent retirees to adjust to retirement. Drawing on the resource‐based dynamic model for retirement adjustment and conservation of resources theory, the current study aims to elaborate theory on resources' types, relative importance and combinations in caravans, and the processes through which they shape successful retirement adjustment. In a consensual qualitative research using abductive reasoning with recent retirees aged 66–69, we find four major resource types. We show that their importance varies (from the most important to the least: social interactions, life conditions, time management and individuality) and that they travel in caravans within a resource type. We further propose a model highlighting how these resources shape successful retirement adjustment through resources signal, conservation and acquisition processes. Overall, our findings offer theoretical and empirical contributions to the resource perspective on retirement adjustment and to conservation of resources theory's understanding of resources' categorization, processes and caravans.
- Subjects
LIFE; MEDICAL care use; QUALITATIVE research; CONSERVATION of natural resources; RESEARCH funding; TRAVEL; RESEARCH evaluation; EMPLOYMENT of older people; QUANTITATIVE research; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SOCIAL adjustment; TIME management; INDIVIDUALITY; HAPPINESS; MATHEMATICAL models; FINANCIAL management; INTERPERSONAL relations; THEORY; COMPARATIVE studies; RETIREMENT planning; ACTIVE aging
- Publication
Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 2024, Vol 97, Issue 2, p699
- ISSN
0963-1798
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/joop.12489