Retirement as a Critical Life Event
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Research on Aging
- Vol. 9 (4) , 548-571
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027587094004
Abstract
This article examines the experience of adaptation to retirement among a sample of women (n = 124) and men (n = 176) retired an average of three years and living in an urban area of Ontario, Canada. The impact of retirement as a life event relative to other life experiences was examined, and found to be distinctly less critical than previous research would suggest.Keywords
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