S and saw it coming. And following the economic crisis, but from much earlier and due to the progressive aging of the English population: Congress of Representatives has just given its approval to delay the retirement age. And we have had to wait long to hear from any member of the ruling party praising the benefits to body and mind to stay active until late in the workforce.
I will not enter the debate about whether it is necessary to carry out the delay, but when I see some guys went to early fifties, retired prematurely, do weights in the gym, I go into some reasonable doubt, both on that need and on the health benefits of a long working life targeted by Jesus Caldera. As I am a psychologist and not an economist, I'll just refer to these alleged health benefits.
At first glance, it seems surprising that the former minister's statement is based on activity theory, developed by Havighurst and Albrecht in 1953, which supports the idea that the tasks and performance of social roles and leads to better interpersonal adjustment to old age, which would be more healthy and satisfying. And, from a study conducted on a sample of subjects over 65 years, these researchers concluded that people who engage in more activities showed more feelings of happiness and satisfaction and were better adapted to the stage. Subsequent studies have also found that the decrease in activities with age is accompanied by a decline in life satisfaction. Thus, according to this theory, an active lifestyle full of roles, including work-keep the older person more suitable and healthy, so that retirement could have a negative impact on health and welfare of the retiree.
What do you think? Not that the current labor minister had commissioned studies right? However, there are also studies that find different results, as we did in the United States by Cumming and Henry (1961) over 275 people and led them to formulate the theory of decoupling . According to this theory, adaptation to aging would require a gradual disengagement of the roles played throughout his life, sustained social relationships or activities. Therefore, the factor that determine the well-being in old age would be the separation of social context. In light of this theory, contribute to a better retirement age, since it involves the abandonment of the role and practice.
Although the two previous theories may seem contradictory at first glance, are actually rather complementary. While involvement in activities can be beneficial for the older person, it is also true that not all activities are equally favorable. Thus, those that are motivating to the subject, which are informal, low stress generated and incurred in the company of other people are actually more beneficial to who makes them. Therefore, even if the person is retired if it maintains a strong involvement in leisure activities may have a good adaptation to the withdrawal of working life and old age. The opposite could be said are activities that are stressful and not very motivating, as are a large part of the professional activities that develop many.
I'm not surprised that most studies find that people in retirement to maintain or even increase their levels of health and welfare. And is that the image of retired and bored and inactive form of the past, because today our biggest engage in a significant number of recreational activities do to stay healthy and happy. Therefore, we could tell our leaders: "Do not do to entertain us and keep active. And we seek something. "
I will not enter the debate about whether it is necessary to carry out the delay, but when I see some guys went to early fifties, retired prematurely, do weights in the gym, I go into some reasonable doubt, both on that need and on the health benefits of a long working life targeted by Jesus Caldera. As I am a psychologist and not an economist, I'll just refer to these alleged health benefits.
At first glance, it seems surprising that the former minister's statement is based on activity theory, developed by Havighurst and Albrecht in 1953, which supports the idea that the tasks and performance of social roles and leads to better interpersonal adjustment to old age, which would be more healthy and satisfying. And, from a study conducted on a sample of subjects over 65 years, these researchers concluded that people who engage in more activities showed more feelings of happiness and satisfaction and were better adapted to the stage. Subsequent studies have also found that the decrease in activities with age is accompanied by a decline in life satisfaction. Thus, according to this theory, an active lifestyle full of roles, including work-keep the older person more suitable and healthy, so that retirement could have a negative impact on health and welfare of the retiree.
What do you think? Not that the current labor minister had commissioned studies right? However, there are also studies that find different results, as we did in the United States by Cumming and Henry (1961) over 275 people and led them to formulate the theory of decoupling . According to this theory, adaptation to aging would require a gradual disengagement of the roles played throughout his life, sustained social relationships or activities. Therefore, the factor that determine the well-being in old age would be the separation of social context. In light of this theory, contribute to a better retirement age, since it involves the abandonment of the role and practice.
Although the two previous theories may seem contradictory at first glance, are actually rather complementary. While involvement in activities can be beneficial for the older person, it is also true that not all activities are equally favorable. Thus, those that are motivating to the subject, which are informal, low stress generated and incurred in the company of other people are actually more beneficial to who makes them. Therefore, even if the person is retired if it maintains a strong involvement in leisure activities may have a good adaptation to the withdrawal of working life and old age. The opposite could be said are activities that are stressful and not very motivating, as are a large part of the professional activities that develop many.
I'm not surprised that most studies find that people in retirement to maintain or even increase their levels of health and welfare. And is that the image of retired and bored and inactive form of the past, because today our biggest engage in a significant number of recreational activities do to stay healthy and happy. Therefore, we could tell our leaders: "Do not do to entertain us and keep active. And we seek something. "
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