The reality worlds of retirees: an Israeli case-control study.
The conceptual point of departure of this study was Cantril's "patterns of human concerns" as reflecting reality worlds. Subjects were 805 "on-time" retirees and 260 kibbutz members (who do not retire) interviewed at three points in time. We asked two questions: Can modal themes in this map of concerns be identified as characteristic of an Israeli cohort of the young elderly? Do gender, class, and retiree/kibbutz status lead to meaningful differences in mapping the world? A quite common modal pattern of concerns was found in the retiree sample, with a central focus on family and interpersonal relations. Commonalities between the different sociocultural groups seemed more striking than the differences.
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Department of the Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007557:Israel; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D012925:Social Conformity; D012931:Social Environment