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E2c Retirement Status Change, Social Support, and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults
Key Words
retirement status change, social support, life satisfaction
Short Description
Life satisfaction reflects one’s current life condition as well as one’s life stage (Gutierrez & Hershey, 2014). For retirees, life satisfaction has to be associated with the nature of their transition into retirement and what they experience during this period (Bonsang & Klein, 2012). In the current study, we focus on the change in working/retirement status and its association with older adults’ life satisfaction. We captured various work-retirement pathways using the information on retirement status measured at two waves of the biennial survey of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We also examined the role of social support as an important coping resource, measured by closeness with spouse/partner, children, other immediate family members, and friends. To sum up, we aim to answer the following two research questions in this study: (a) how life satisfaction of older adults may vary by their working/retirement status change and (b) whether social support can play a positive role in their life satisfaction.