Travel: a long-range goal of retired women.
The authors surveyed retired persons (predominately women) with regard to their immediate, intermediate, and long-range activities following retirement. As predicted, leisure travel emerged as a frequent long-range goal for persons retired more than 5 years. The travel activity preferences of long-retired older women present challenges and opportunities to both researchers and marketers. Length of trips and frequency of trips have been predicted from regression models, with trip length in particular being well predicted by the problem of daily life hassles. A theoretical model of continued post-retirement travel is presented as a variant of Solomon's opponent process theory of affect (R. L. Solomon, 1980). The authors suggest that to the degree that places traveled to are varied and different, older people may remain stimulated and continue to enjoy retirement.
Staats
Sara
S
Human Research Resource Center, The Ohio State University at Newark, 43055, USA. staats.1@osu.edu
Pierfelice
Loretta
L
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D012179:Retirement; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014195:Travel