ISSN:
1758-5368
Content:
Abstract. Objectives: Recent trends, such as changes in pension systems or cohort differences in individual resources, have altered the face of retirement transitions. Little is known about how these trends have affected older people’s life satisfaction around retirement age in the past decades. In this study, we investigated how levels and changes in life satisfaction before and after retirement changed over historical time in Germany and Switzerland. Methods: We used longitudinal data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) from 2000 to 2019. Level, preretirement change, and short- and long-term change in life satisfaction (0–10) after retirement were predicted by year of retirement (2001–2019) in a multigroup piecewise growth curve model.
In:
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences, social sciences, Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1995, 78(2023), 8, Seite 1365–1374, 1758-5368
In:
volume:78
In:
year:2023
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number:8
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pages:1365–1374
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/geronb/gbad066
Author information:
Huxhold, Oliver 1973-