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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.4.371

Types of Retirement Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction among Middle and Older Adults: Focusing on Gender Differences  

Cho, Kyuyoung (College of General Education, Dong-A University)
Jun, Hey Jung (Department of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University)
Lee, Eun Jee (Department of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.4, 2019 , pp. 371-381 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study explored how retirement satisfaction or dissatisfaction influences on retirees' life satisfaction, comparing to workers and the gender differences were examined. The study sample was 2,609 persons (1,886 workers, 723 retirees) aged 45 or older who participated in the 1-2 waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA), and the retirees were classified into continuously dissatisfied retirees and satisfied retirees during wave 1 and 2. Using SPSS 21.0, the multiple regression models were examined, and in order to clarify the gender difference, the multi-group analysis and the wald-test were conducted to test the difference of the regression coefficients according to gender using Mplus 7.3. According to the results, the life satisfaction of dissatisfied retirees was lower than that of the employed, but when satisfied with retirement, the life satisfaction was higher than that of the employed. In addition, the dissatisfied retirees in both gender were less satisfied with life than the employed, and this effect was greater in female group. However, the life satisfaction of female satisfied with retirement was higher than that of the employed, whereas the evidence of the male influence was not found to be significant. Based on the results of this study, discussion about heterogeneity of retirees and gender differences in life span were presented.
Keywords
Dissatisfying Retirement; Satisfying Retirement; Gender Difference; Life Satisfaction; KLoSA;
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