title: Psychological transition and adjustment processes related to retirement: influence on cognitive functioning.
abstract: To investigate the relationship between psychological transition and adjustment to retirement and cognitive performances in older adults.
  
  
  
  The study's sample was taken from the Approche Multidisciplinaire Intégrée cohort, a French prospective study of retirees from agriculture, aged 65 and over, living in rural settings in southwestern France. The cross-sectional analyses were conducted on a sample of 590 elderly people without dementia at baseline and for whom information on perception of the work setting, experience of the retirement transition and adaptation to retirement life (nine variables) as well as neuropsychological measures (global cognitive functioning, episodic memory, verbal fluency, attention and psychomotor speed) were available at first visit.
  
  
  
  Multivariable linear regression analyses, including nine variables related to retirement and adjusted for potential confounding factors, indicated that three of them - positive consideration of former work situation, development of new activities during retirement and good adaptation to free time - were associated with better cognitive performances.
  
  
  
  We found that several factors proved to be determinants of good cognitive functioning at retirement and could serve as a basis for the development of more efficient intervention programs aimed at helping retirees to maintain good cognitive functioning after retirement.
authors: a Psychology of Aging Unit , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Grotz
authors: b INSERM, U 1219, Bordeaux Public Health Center , Bordeaux , France.|c ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health Research Center , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Fanny
authors: F
authors: Matharan
authors: b INSERM, U 1219, Bordeaux Public Health Center , Bordeaux , France.|c ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health Research Center , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Hélène
authors: H
authors: Amieva
authors: b INSERM, U 1219, Bordeaux Public Health Center , Bordeaux , France.|c ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health Research Center , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Karine
authors: K
authors: Pérès
authors: d Laboratory of Psychology EA 4139 , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Sonia
authors: S
authors: Laberon
authors: e Parisian Laboratory of Social Psychology EA 4386 , University of Paris Ouest Nanterre , Paris , France.
authors: Anne-Marie
authors: AM
authors: Vonthron
authors: b INSERM, U 1219, Bordeaux Public Health Center , Bordeaux , France.|c ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health Research Center , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Jean-François
authors: JF
authors: Dartigues
authors: a Psychology of Aging Unit , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.
authors: Stéphane
authors: S
authors: Adam
authors: b INSERM, U 1219, Bordeaux Public Health Center , Bordeaux , France.|c ISPED, Centre INSERM U1219 - Bordeaux Population Health Research Center , University of Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France.
authors: Luc
authors: L
authors: Letenneur
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D012424:Rural Population; D012917:Social Adjustment
keywords: Aging; adjustment to retirement; cognition; psychological transition processes; retirement