Linking Quality of Work in Midlife to Volunteering During Retirement: a European Study.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing recognition that disadvantaged work and employment conditions over the life course, including psychosocial stress at work, have negative long-term effects on health at older ages. Yet, the question whether stress at work additionally influences the likelihood of participating in voluntary work during retirement still needs to be explored. This paper studies long-term influences of stressful work during adulthood (as defined by low control and low reward at work) on participation in voluntary work in older ages. Analyses are based on the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), with detailed retrospective information on individual life courses collected among 11,751 retired men and women in 13 European countries. Results of multivariable analyses demonst

SUBMITTER: Wahrendorf M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785201 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature