Retirement is classically defined as a withdrawal from a regular workplace. When individuals reach certain ages, a period of retirement inevitably visited them. As changes (brought by retirement) happen, a sense of discontinuity from one's regular way of living occurs. A mixture of discontinuity and disruption lead individuals to find order out of a new changed situation.
Most of the previous research solely focused on SES, gender, leisure activities and marital status regarding changes in life satisfactions among retirees. This paper assumes meaning-making as a key variable when it comes to one's life-satisfaction.
Why? because of the growing level of life expectancy, individuals tend to find works even after retirement. Many said, "there is no such a thing as a retirement." It shows, the elderly find part-time or irregular job position, after retirement.
Samples of this paper are elderly people who already retired from their regular work, yet find works to do as a part-timer. Among the samples, different people have different levels of life satisfactions. Why is it that some reported relatively higher levels of life satisfactions while others did not?
Here comes meaning-making as a key variable. Why meaning-making?
Many research found that meaning-making process increases a level of life satisfaction.
1) It is mainly because it helps reduce discrepancies between its appraised meaning and global meaning, which is in line with a reduction in cognitive dissonance.
2) The second reason is based on continuity theory.
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