Engagement with six major life domains during the transition to retirement: Stability and change for better or worse.

ABSTRACT: Active engagement with multiple life domains (cross-domain engagement) is associated with adaptation throughout the adult life span. However, less is known about the role of cross-domain engagement during significant life course transitions that can challenge motivational resources, such as the shift to retirement. Based on the motivational theory of life span development (Heckhausen, Wrosch, & Schulz, 2010, 2019), the present study used 9-year data from the national Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS; n = 1,301, M age = 57, SD = 6.96, 56% female) to identify profiles of cross-domain engagement and to assess stability and change in these profiles during the transition to retirement. We also examined whether stability and change in the engagement profiles had imp

SUBMITTER: Hamm JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147829 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature