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PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN LATE ADULTHOOD
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
The task the individual has to accomplish is: Preventing redundancy and preparing for retirement.
- Retirement between 60 & 65 years; ( education, work status, job satisfaction and salary = less eager to retire.
Adjustment to retirement
- Decline in income, loss of status, power and personal social identity; freedom of time use
- Financial security one of the factors that contributes towards a healthy and independent old age.
- Voluntary retirement and health
- Attitudes of others
- Attitude toward work
- Preparation for retirement
Process of retirement: Atchley's Phases of retirement: individualistic, not sequential or age specific
- Pre-retirement - remote; near retirement
- Honeymoon phase - enjoyment
- Disenchantment phase- excitement worn off
- Reorientation phase - more realistic expectations
- Stability phase role mastery
- Termination phase loss of physical capabilities & autonomy (illness & disability)
Effect of Retirement
No notable effect on health, activity, social and leisure activities, marital happiness or life satisfaction
FACTORS THAT PROMOTE SUCCESSFUL AGING
a Social activity
Disengagement Theory (Cumming & Henry)
- Natural decline in role activity
- Gradual physical & psychological withdrawal from others
- Community with draws from individual
- Mutual & simultaneous withdrawal
- psychological well being
Activity Theory
- Successful aging is dependent on high level of activity & involvement
- The degree in which they succeed in finding satisfactory substitute roles influence life satisfaction
- Short comings in both theories.
b Personality factors
Personality structure is the central factor in determining ageing patterns and that establishes the r/ship between social role activity & life satisfaction.
Better explanation of individual adjustments to old age.
c Economic factors
In...