title: Attitudes toward retirement in an Israeli cohort.
abstract: The three-fold purpose of this study was 1) to clarify the concept of "attitudes toward retirement" and its multidimensional structure; 2) to test hypotheses about the relationship between attitudes and gender and SES; and 3) to analyze the relationship between attitudes and the Sense of Coherence concept in terms of the functional consequences of different attitudes. A sample of 805 (432 men and 373 women) Israeli "on-time" people on the verge of retirement were interviewed. Results point to the importance of distinguishing between perceptions of gains and losses in the retirement developmental transition; identification of blue-collar workers, with ambivalent attitudes, as a high-risk group; and the importance of a strong Sense of Coherence in adopting attitudes presumably functional in coping with the developmental transition.
authors.affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Antonovsky
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sagy
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Visel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class