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Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany
German Centre of Gerontology, Manfred-von-Richthofen-Straße 2, Berlin, Germany.
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, United States; Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Dementia Prevention, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology. Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0834-1040
School of Management, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.
2024 (English)In: European Journal of Ageing, ISSN 1613-9372, E-ISSN 1613-9380, Vol. 21, no 1, article id 33Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, and (ii) social inequalities and interindividual differences in change in pre-retirement job satisfaction. Data were drawn from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (n = 2595). Latent growth curve modeling revealed that job satisfaction declined slightly as people approached retirement, with steeper declines in the very last years before retirement. However, the mean-level decline was very small. Education, age, health, region, marital status, and historical time, but not gender or caregiving mattered for level and change in job satisfaction before retirement. The findings demonstrate the importance of taking a time-to-retirement approach when examining experiences of older workers.

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Springer Nature, 2024. Vol. 21, no 1, article id 33
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Job satisfaction, Latent growth curve modeling, Retirement, Time-to-retirement approach
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Gerontology, specialising in Medical and Health Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232285DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00830-0ISI: 001352435100001PubMedID: 39527332Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209780617OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-232285DiVA, id: diva2:1916695
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