Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers
| Autor: | Heike Schroder, Jill Manthorpe, Patricia Gillen, John Mallett, Paula McFadden, John Moriarty |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Employment
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Social Workers lcsh:Medicine Context (language use) Social Welfare 050105 experimental psychology Article extended working life Quality of life (healthcare) 0502 economics and business Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology organisational policy Service (business) Social work ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry 05 social sciences lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Public relations Mental health United Kingdom workplace Work (electrical) retirement Workforce Quality of Life business 050203 business & management mental health |
| Zdroj: | Moriarty, J, Gillen, P, Mallett, J, Manthorpe, J, Schröder, H & McFadden, P 2020, ' Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers ', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 17, no. 3, 4722 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134722 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 4722, p 4722 (2020) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 13 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17134722 |
| Popis: | Planning for future health and social services (HSS) workforces must be informed by an understanding of how workers view their work within the context of their life and the challenges they will face across the course of life. There is a range of policies and provisions that states and organisations can adopt to create sustainable careers, support wellbeing at work, and extend working lives where appropriate, but the potential impact of these policies on the make-up of the workforce remains under investigation. This paper makes the case that service planners need to appreciate complex interplay between wellbeing and career decisions when planning the future workforce. It makes use of a recent survey of United Kingdom (UK) social workers (n = 1434) to illustrate this interplay in two ways. First, we present the analysis of how social workers&rsquo perception of retirement and extended working lives are associated with dimensions of Work-Related Quality of Life (WRQL). We find that social workers who agreed that a flexible working policy would encourage them to delay their retirement scored lower on the Home-Work Interface and Control at Work dimensions of WRQL, while social workers who indicated a perception that their employer would not wish them to work beyond a certain age had lower Job and Career Satisfaction scores. Second, we propose a new typology of retirement outlooks using latent class analysis of these attitudinal measures. An 8-class solution is proposed, and we demonstrate the predictive utility of this scheme. Results are discussed in terms of the challenges for ageing Western populations and the usefulness of analysis such as this in estimating the potential uptake and impact of age-friendly policies and provisions. |
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