Luke Jennifer, McIlveen Peter, Perera Harsha N
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education, University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD, Australia.
School of Education, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2016 Feb 17;7:193. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00193. eCollection 2016.
Retirement can no longer be conceptualized as disengagement, as the end of a person's career, as it is in the life-span, life-space theory. Increasingly, retirees are returning to work, in paid, and unpaid positions, in a part-time or full-time capacity, as an act of re-engagement. Vocational psychology theories are yet to adequately conceptualize the phenomenon of retirees' re-engagement in work. The research reported in this paper is the first attempt to understand re-engagement through the theoretical lens of career construction theory (CCT) and its central construct, career adaptability. The study involved intensive interviews with 22 retirees between the ages of 56 and 78 years (M = 68.24), who had retired no less than 1 year prior to the study. Participants were engaged in a discussion about their reasons for returning to the world of work. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts extracted evidence of the four career adaptability resources: concern, control, curiosity, and confidence. In addition, the influence of family and making a contribution were discerned as important themes. These findings are the first evidence that the CCT and career adaptability provide a new conceptual lens to theorize and conduct research into the phenomenon of retirement.
退休不能再像在生命周期、生活空间理论中那样，被概念化为脱离社会、一个人职业生涯的结束。越来越多的退休人员以重新参与的行为，以兼职或全职的形式回到有薪或无薪的工作岗位。职业心理学理论尚未充分概念化退休人员重新参与工作的现象。本文所报告的研究是首次尝试通过职业建构理论（CCT）及其核心概念职业适应性的理论视角来理解重新参与。该研究对22名年龄在56岁至78岁之间（平均年龄M = 68.24岁）的退休人员进行了深入访谈，这些退休人员在研究开始前至少已退休1年。参与者参与了关于他们重返工作岗位原因的讨论。对访谈记录的主题分析提取了四种职业适应性资源的证据：关注、控制、好奇和自信。此外，家庭的影响和做出贡献被视为重要主题。这些发现首次证明，职业建构理论和职业适应性为对退休现象进行理论化和开展研究提供了一个新的概念视角。
