Social support networks and meanings about retirement. An analysis of latent profiles in Argentine retirees
Retirement as a vital event, generates a set of changes on people’s lives. Social changes can be stressful and generate negative correlates on health. However, there are several mediating variables that intervene in the phenomenon of adaptation to retirement. Several studies have examined them, gene...
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Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | http://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/psicologiasocial/article/view/7883 http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=psocial&d=8_2-7883_oai |
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| Sumario: | Retirement as a vital event, generates a set of changes on people’s lives. Social changes can be stressful and generate negative correlates on health. However, there are several mediating variables that intervene in the phenomenon of adaptation to retirement. Several studies have examined them, generally separately. Thus, the present work aims to generate an analysis of the behavior profiles of two mediating variables: social support networks and meanings about retirement. To do so the steps corresponding to a non-experimental, ex post facto, explanatory cross-sectional study. were followed. The sample was made of 300 adults, aged over 60, retired, residing in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who answered a socio demographic and Retirement Data Questionaire, the Inventory of Social Resources for the Elderly and the Questionnaire of Meanings about Retirement. The corresponding analyses for the data were carried out, which allowed knowing the profiles of retired elder adults in terms of their social support networks and the meanings they attribute to retirement. Based on this, the existence of three types of profiles was found: favorable, adverse and ambivalent. The findings of this study provide interesting data on the development of profiles that can influence adaptation to the changes associated with retirement. |
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