title: Resource Loss and Gain, Life Satisfaction, and Health Among Retirees in Spain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article focuses on retirement transition from the Conservation of Resources (COR) perspective to better understand how aged participants' perceptions of retirement losses and gains significantly explain retirement well-being. In this article, the mediation of social support in the losses-well-being relationship is explored.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted with a two-wave longitudinal design. Participants at T1 were aged Spanish workers (>64 years) and at T2 were retirees, with a final sample of 275, who had retired during the previous 6 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings supported the assertion that losses better explain well-being than gains. In addition, specific losses revealed a higher explaining power of life satisfaction and health complaints depending on their content. Social support mediated between perceived losses and well-being.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that both perceived losses and gains associated with retirement and social support during retirement should be taken into account when addressing postretirement well-being.
authors.affiliation: 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Topa
authors.affiliation: 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.affiliation: 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Encarna
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Valero
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Valladolid, Spain.
authors.forename: Anastasio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ovejero
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: COR; health complaints; resources; retirement; retirement satisfaction; well-being