Goals, Values, and Life Evaluations at the Preretirement Stage

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This study examined the transition to retirement from the perspective of goal-setting, value orientations, and life appraisals, factors which were hypothesized to influence adaptation (as measured by ratings of psychological resources, Gottschalk Anxiety Scores, and Bradburn Balance Scores). The sample consisted of 60 men and women facing retirement and, for purpose of comparison, 54 men and women facing the empty-nest stage. The preretired men were more positive about their concrete goals and their life appraisals than were the other groups; they showed a decline in instrumentalmaterial and interpersonal-expressive values and an increase in ease-contentment and hedonistic values. Preretired women showed only a decline in interpersonal-expressive values. High instrumentalmaterial and hedonistic values were shown to have negative implications for preretired men. Appraisals of life attainment suggest that for men critical life reviews occur at the termination of the occupational career, for women at the termination of the family cycle.
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