What do I make of the rest of my life? Global and quotidian life construal across the retirement transition

IF 3.4 2区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104137

Jeff Steiner, Teresa M. Amabile

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Abstract

Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of retirement for one’s life narrative. We investigate how American professionals construe their working and retirement lives, in a qualitative study drawing on 215 interviews with 120 participants, including 12 interviewed longitudinally throughout their years-long retirement transitions. We identify two orthogonal dimensions for contemplating the work and retirement domains of one’s life – global and quotidian life construal – and four basic modes of cognition that arise from variability across these dimensions. We induce a theoretical model describing how construal of working life prefigures construal of retirement life, which then shapes the retirement life experience. This study contributes to construal level theory, narrative psychology, and the literatures on retirement transitions and the meaning of work.

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我的余生该如何度过?退休过渡期的全球和日常生活解析

退休意味着放弃工作提供的日常结构，以及它提供的生活叙事的职业依赖意义。因此，退休的过渡可以包括考虑如何度过新释放出来的日常时间，以及退休对一个人的生活叙事的影响。我们调查了美国专业人士如何解释他们的工作和退休生活，在一项定性研究中，对120名参与者进行了215次访谈，其中12人在他们长达数年的退休过渡期间进行了纵向访谈。我们确定了两个正交的维度来思考一个人的生活的工作和退休领域-全球和日常生活解释-以及四种基本的认知模式，这些模式源于这些维度的可变性。我们归纳了一个理论模型，描述工作生活的解释如何预示退休生活的解释，然后塑造退休生活经验。本研究对解释水平理论、叙事心理学、退休过渡与工作意义的文献研究都有贡献。

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期刊介绍： Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes publishes fundamental research in organizational behavior, organizational psychology, and human cognition, judgment, and decision-making. The journal features articles that present original empirical research, theory development, meta-analysis, and methodological advancements relevant to the substantive domains served by the journal. Topics covered by the journal include perception, cognition, judgment, attitudes, emotion, well-being, motivation, choice, and performance. We are interested in articles that investigate these topics as they pertain to individuals, dyads, groups, and other social collectives. For each topic, we place a premium on articles that make fundamental and substantial contributions to understanding psychological processes relevant to human attitudes, cognitions, and behavior in organizations. In order to be considered for publication in OBHDP a manuscript has to include the following: 1.Demonstrate an interesting behavioral/psychological phenomenon 2.Make a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the existing literature 3.Identify and test the underlying psychological mechanism for the newly discovered behavioral/psychological phenomenon 4.Have practical implications in organizational context