Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute-KNAW, The Hague, The Netherlands.
University of Groningen and The University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2024 Nov 1;79(11). doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbae142.
An individual's past, and reflections on it, may influence current and future well-being. Recent qualitative studies suggest retirees' recollections about their careers relate to well-being in retirement. We investigated associations between life course events and subjective career evaluations, gender differences in these associations, and their subsequent association with retirement adjustment.
We used data from 3 waves (2015, 2018, and 2023) of the NIDI Pension Panel Study (NPPS), a longitudinal survey of Dutch older workers. Using a sample of 6,109 respondents, we used ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models to investigate associations between employment stability facilitators and inhibitors (e.g., promotion, demotion, unemployment) and personal shocks (e.g., divorce, widowhood) and subjective evaluations of satisfaction with the work and family domains of career between genders. Using a follow-up sample (N = 4,106), we employed ordinal logistic regression models to investigate the impact of these baseline subjective evaluations on retirement adjustment at follow-up.
Employment stability factors such as demotion and unemployment, and personal shocks such as poor psychological health were associated with subjective evaluations of the work and family career domains. Gender differences in these associations were found. Evaluations in both the work and family domains were associated with retirement adjustment at follow-up.
Our results demonstrate the importance of life course events on older workers' evaluations of their careers and the long-term impact of subjective career evaluations. Further research is needed to evaluate the predictive utility of these evaluations for other outcomes in older adulthood.
个人的过去及其反思可能会影响当前和未来的幸福感。最近的定性研究表明，退休人员对自己职业生涯的回忆与退休后的幸福感有关。我们调查了生活事件与主观职业评价之间的关系、这些关系中的性别差异，以及它们随后与退休调整的关系。
我们使用了荷兰老年工人纵向调查 NIDI 养老金面板研究（NPPS）的 3 个波次（2015 年、2018 年和 2023 年）的数据。我们使用了一个由 6109 名受访者组成的样本，使用普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归模型来研究就业稳定促进因素和抑制因素（如晋升、降职、失业）以及个人冲击（如离婚、丧偶）与工作和家庭职业领域的主观满意度评价之间的关系，以及性别差异。使用随访样本（N=4106），我们采用有序逻辑回归模型来研究这些基线主观评价对随访时退休调整的影响。
就业稳定因素（如降职和失业）和个人冲击（如心理健康不佳）与工作和家庭职业领域的主观评价有关。在这些关系中发现了性别差异。工作和家庭两个领域的评价都与随访时的退休调整有关。
我们的研究结果表明，生活事件对老年工人对其职业的评价的重要性以及主观职业评价的长期影响。需要进一步研究这些评价对老年期其他结果的预测效用。
