Borel Laurie, Boller Benjamin, Henning Georg, Vallet Guillaume T
Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada.
Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Psychologie, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LaPSCo, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Oct 2;14(10):891. doi: 10.3390/bs14100891.
Retirement is associated with numerous representations, some of them being negative and the other positive. Yet, these representations affect the health of individuals in their transition to retirement. However, although the socio-political context in France favors the emergence of numerous representations of retired people, to our knowledge there is no scale validated in French that would allow us to evaluate them. Thus, the objective of this study was to adapt and validate a scale assessing representations of retired people, called the Retirement Semantic Differential (RSD), for a French population. The scale consists of a series of bipolar adjectives related to retirement, such as "active/passive" and "happy/sad", with participants' responses indicating the connotative meaning, positive or negative, about representations of retirement. A total of 279 participants aged 18 to 55 years, recruited online, completed the adapted version of the RSD. The results show that the scale has good psychometric properties. The analysis found a three-factor model, and some items were removed, resulting in a reduced version of the scale (11 items). The results will be discussed in terms of cultural and socio-political differences. This scale could contribute to a better understanding of the deleterious effects on health of the transition to retirement and serve to improve the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing the negative effects of these representations upon young retirees or those preparing for retirement.
退休与多种认知相关，其中一些是负面的，另一些是正面的。然而，这些认知在个体向退休过渡的过程中会影响他们的健康。尽管如此，虽然法国的社会政治环境有利于出现大量关于退休人员的认知，但据我们所知，尚无经过法语验证的量表可让我们对这些认知进行评估。因此，本研究的目的是针对法国人群改编并验证一个评估退休人员认知的量表，即退休语义差异量表（RSD）。该量表由一系列与退休相关的双极形容词组成，如“积极的/消极的”和“快乐的/悲伤的”，参与者的回答表明了对退休认知的内涵意义，是积极还是消极。总共279名年龄在18至55岁之间的参与者通过网络招募，完成了改编后的RSD量表。结果表明该量表具有良好的心理测量特性。分析发现了一个三因素模型，并删除了一些项目，从而得到了一个简化版量表（11个项目）。将从文化和社会政治差异的角度对结果进行讨论。该量表有助于更好地理解退休过渡对健康的有害影响，并有助于提高旨在减少这些认知对年轻退休人员或即将退休人员负面影响的干预措施的有效性。
