Department of Management, 12329University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
Faculty of Social Work, 61150Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.
Res Aging. 2022 Oct-Dec;44(9-10):770-781. doi: 10.1177/01640275221079023. Epub 2022 Mar 28.
Retirement anxiety represents a major challenge for older workers who hold negative expectations and concerns regarding the consequences of their future retirement. Although prior studies suggest that retirement is an age-related transition that may serve as a reminder that life is nearing its end, little is known about how subjective nearness-to-death is related to retirement anxiety, and the role of work group identification as a boundary condition. The current study draws on terror management and social identity theories to hypothesize and investigate these relationships. A three-way interaction model was tested on a sample of 327 Israeli older workers. We found a positive association between subjective nearness-to-death and retirement anxiety. Further, we demonstrated that the positive relationship between subjective nearness-to-death and retirement anxiety was more prominent for older workers whose work group self-definition and self-investment were both high or were both low. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
退休焦虑是老年工作者面临的主要挑战之一，他们对未来退休的后果持有负面的期望和担忧。尽管先前的研究表明退休是一个与年龄相关的过渡，可能会提醒人们生命即将结束，但关于主观死亡临近与退休焦虑的关系，以及工作群体认同作为边界条件的作用，知之甚少。本研究借鉴了死亡管理和社会认同理论，假设并研究了这些关系。我们在一个由 327 名以色列老年工人组成的样本上测试了一个三向交互模型。我们发现主观死亡临近与退休焦虑之间存在正相关关系。此外，我们还表明，对于那些工作群体自我定义和自我投入都高或都低的老年工人来说，主观死亡临近与退休焦虑之间的正相关关系更为明显。这些发现的理论和实践意义将进行讨论。
