Growing into retirement: Longitudinal evidence for the importance of partner support for self-expansion.

ABSTRACT: Retirement can be a turbulent time of life in which people must navigate changes in their identity from ending a career and beginning a new phase of life. However, retirement can also provide opportunities for growth or self-expansion. We examined the benefits of partner support for self-expansion by using longitudinal evidence (at 3 time points) in a sample of 73 couples. We tested a theoretical model proposing that partner support for self-expansion at Time 1 would predict retirement satisfaction and overall health 1 year later and that these effects would be mediated by self-expansion at 6 months. Using structural equation modeling, we found significant indirect effects for both retirement satisfaction and health, supporting all hypotheses. These results suggest that during retirement,

SUBMITTER: Tomlinson JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8344796 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature