TY - JOUR
T1 - The reality worlds of retirees
T2 - An israeli case-control study
AU - Sagy, Shifra
AU - Antonovsky, Aaron
N1 - Funding Information:
The study ffom which this article emerged, “Retirement, Coping, and Health,” was supported by grant number HUD-2 5 R01 AG05206-01from the United States National lnsti-tute on Aging. We are gratejid to Israel Adler for satistical guidance and assistance. Address correspondence to Shifa Sagy, Department of the Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - The conceptual point of departure of this study was Cantril's “patterns of human concerns” as reflecting reality worlds. Subjects were 805 “on-time” retirees and 260 kibbutz members (who do not retire) interviewed at three points in time. We asked two questions: Can modal themes in this map of concerns be identified as characteristic of an Israeli cohort of the young elderly? Do gender, class, and retiree/kibbutz status lead to meaningful differences in mapping the world? A quite common modal pattern of concerns was found in the retiree sample, with a central focus on family and interpersonal relations. Commonalities between the different sociocultural groups seemed more striking than the differences.
AB - The conceptual point of departure of this study was Cantril's “patterns of human concerns” as reflecting reality worlds. Subjects were 805 “on-time” retirees and 260 kibbutz members (who do not retire) interviewed at three points in time. We asked two questions: Can modal themes in this map of concerns be identified as characteristic of an Israeli cohort of the young elderly? Do gender, class, and retiree/kibbutz status lead to meaningful differences in mapping the world? A quite common modal pattern of concerns was found in the retiree sample, with a central focus on family and interpersonal relations. Commonalities between the different sociocultural groups seemed more striking than the differences.
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U2 - 10.1080/00223980.1994.9712716
DO - 10.1080/00223980.1994.9712716
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028247464
SN - 0022-3980
VL - 128
SP - 111
EP - 128
JO - Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied
JF - Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied
IS - 1
ER -