Using a Mixed Vignettes and Interview Responses Convergence Method to Understand What Do Retirees Value

Amberyce Ang

doi:10.19080/oajggm.2020.05.555675

Abstract

Using a Mixed Vignettes and Interview Responses Convergence Method to Understand What Do Retirees Value

Highlights

Retirement studies differ as to whether retirement is a positive, negative or neutral experience and the factors that influenced retirement satisfaction are debatable [1]
2) To tease out the priorities accorded to the various values by creating scenarios with competing interests
The underlying resource that participants derived from relationships was socio-emotional support. Regardless of their retirement transition type, this study found that participants who have successfully adjusted to retirement were those who had found a new sense of meaning and focus on familial relations and social connectedness

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Introduction

Retirement studies differ as to whether retirement is a positive, negative or neutral experience and the factors that influenced retirement satisfaction are debatable [1]. In addition to differing outcomes in retirement studies, literature review on retirement found that it encompassed a wide range of sub-topics and themes [3]. In line with the popular discourses identified by Getting’s and the conceptualizations by Wang and Shultz, this study had chosen to focus on understanding how retirees chart their “new retirement course” as their retirement adjustment process. For the purpose of this study, “retirement” was defined as full withdrawal from career employment and “retirees” as those who have fully ceased employment from formal career. Retirement was considered as “voluntary” in this study if the individual had made the choice to fully cease career employment or was ready and willing to fully withdraw from formal career employment even if the choice was absent. An example of voluntary retirement is the absence of choice when the older worker could no longer extend employment due to mandatory retirement age but was ready to retire and willingly accepted the retirement as a natural and inevitable progression in life

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