The relationships between life in retirement and the quality of marriage among retirees were examined-- specifically the effects of selected factors associated with retirement on measures of dyadic quality. Two self-administered questionnaires were mailed to each of 522 households of retired Oregon educators and their partners. Households were randomly selected from a list of 1,347 retired educators. Completed questionnaires from 261 couples -- 522 respondents -- provided the data base. The 4-page questionnaire contained 18 items incorporating 38 independent variables. A 10-part variant of Spanier's Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) measured the dependent variable, dyadic quality, and two of its subsets: dyadic cohesion and dyadic satisfaction. The study examined: (1) descriptive data of dyads and individuals; (2) differences in dyadic quality among groups of respondents differentiated by sex and retirement status; (3) differences in dyadic quality among respondents reporting varying levels of retirement satisfaction and life satisfaction; (4) significant correlations between paired independent and dependent variables; (5) percentages of variance in dependent variables accounted for by independent variables. Statistical procedures include One-way Analyses of Variance (fixed model), Spearman Rho Correlation Coefficients, and Stepwise Multiple Regressions. The regression model includes 20 independent variables, each of which correlates with a dependent variable at the .05 level. The descriptive data profile 17 dimensions of typical, somewhat atypical, and very atypical characteristics of this population of retired couples. The findings include: The regression equation of 20 independent variables explained 32% of the variance in dyadic quality. Three independent variables emerged as the strongest predictors of dyadic quality: emotional health; life satisfaction scores, and an active social life. Confirmed hypotheses found significant correlations between dyadic quality and independent variables of physical health, emotional health, health problems, satisfaction with income, and financial problems. Rejected hypotheses predicted significant correlations between dyadic quality and independent variables of household income, gender, age, and years in the marriage. Also rejected were hypotheses predicting significant differences in dyadic quality among groups of retirees and spouses differentiated by retirement status and gender. Some differences in dyadic quality were registered among respondents reporting different levels of satisfaction with retirement and with life but the results were inconclusive and warrant further study. / Graduation date: 1985

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Kehoe. Dissertation Committee: William P. Anderson. Bibliography: leaves 120-125.

Thesis--Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Va., 1968. / Title from PDF t.p. (LLMC Digital, viewed on June 1, 2010). Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-128).

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Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, United States Army, 1959. / Title from LLMC on-line catalog. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in microfiche.

This PhD focuses on the life stories of ten Scottish women retirees. Exploring their subjective experiences of retirement, professional and personal attachments, and sense of belonging, it provides a within-gender analysis by means of intersectionality theory (Yuval-Davis 2011) and thematic narrative analysis (Riessman 2008). Women’s retirement is a largely unexplored phenomenon with a general lack of engagement with subjective experience and a preoccupation with a male, middle-class template in which retirement is considered a discrete transition from employment, triggering loss of identity. Diversity of experience, including the cumulative impact on retirement of personal and professional, as well as socio-political, cultural, organisational and interpersonal factors, and what people do in retirement remain largely unaddressed. The respondents’ belonging, their professional and personal affiliations across the lifespan, was explored. Themes of structure (stereotyping, discrimination and change) and agency (values and emotions) were exposed within and across their narratives. Each retirement was uniquely multifaceted, informed by wide-ranging, constitutive intersectionalities including gender, ageing, generation, ethnicity, class and health. Gender prescribed distinct trajectories of marriage, motherhood and gendered occupation, often resulting in pension poverty and a professional-personal conflict which intensified as they aged. In later life, generational values of community and a desire to be purposeful faced challenge. As opportunities contracted, the respondents remained determined to be useful and purposeful in their ongoing pursuits of employment, volunteering, caring and community work. The male, economic paradigm of retirement emerges as an obsolete construct and in its inability to accommodate differences a source of disadvantage for some women retirees. For these women, retirement neither represented a discrete transition nor loss of identity as they were sustained by their life-long values of doing something worthwhile. Remaining committed to ‘making a difference’, these women never retired in the official sense of the word.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-02-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:53:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 meira_vra_me_prud.pdf: 557383 bytes, checksum: b8766089b0ebacecac820e15be609c19 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho, vinculado à linha de pesquisa “Políticas Públicas, Organização Escolar Formação de Professores”, teve como objetivo investigar a situação dos professores aposentados dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, que retornaram à docência na rede de ensino municipal de Presidente Prudente e de Presidente Bernardes ambos situados no Estado de São Paulo. O estudo busca responder à seguinte problemática: Quais são os motivos que levam um professor aposentado a retornar ao exercício da docência? O referencial teórico assumido envolveu estudos sobre o contexto da escola pública e os dilemas enfrentados pelos professores, legislação previdenciária relacionada à aposentadoria do professor, os ciclos de vida e carreira docente e os aspectos da inatividade ligados ao processo de vivência da aposentadoria. Esta pesquisa utilizou uma abordagem qualitativa e os sujeitos participantes foram seis professoras aposentadas em exercício em escolas da rede municipal. A coleta dos dados da pesquisa junto a essas professoras desenvolveu-se em duas etapas. Na primeira, realizamos uma entrevista semiestruturada com a finalidade de identificar o perfil das profissionais, entender os motivos que as levaram a se aposentar e, depois, retornar ao exercício da docência, após a aposentadoria. Já a segunda etapa compreendeu a realização de entrevistas de aprofundamento, com a finalidade de entender alguns depoimentos oferecidos pelas professoras, bem como aprofundar como ocorreu o processo de aposentadoria e o retorno dessas professoras ao magistério. Os dados relativos ao perfil... / This study, it is linked to the research topic Public Policy, School Organization and Teachers Education. The research objective was investigate the situation of retired teachers of the early years of elementary school, who returned teaching in the school system of Presidente Prudente and President Bernardes city, both located in the State of Sao Paulo. The study seeks to answer the following problem: What are the motives a retired teacher return to the teaching profession? The theoretical studies involved the context of public schools and the dilemmas faced by teachers, social retirement legislation related to the teachers, the cycles of life and teaching career and inactivity aspect related of retirement process. This research used a qualitative approach and the participants were six retired teachers in exercise in municipal schools. The data’s survey collection from these teachers was settled in two stages. At first, we implemented a semistructured interview in order to identify the professionals profile, understand the reasons which led them to retire and then return to the teaching profession after retirement. The second step consisted in a depth interview, in order to understand some teachers testimonies and probe how occurred the retirement process of these teachers and why they return to teaching... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

The purpose of the study is to measure satisfactions for United States retired military officers and to determine if there is a relationship between retrospective military career satisfactions and current second career or retired satisfactions. Hypothesis I states that there is a positive relationship between a retrospective measure of an officer's military career satisfactions and his current second career satisfactions. Hypothesis II states that there is a positive relationship between a retrospective measure of an officer's military career satisfactions and his retirement satisfactions. The first conclusion is that Hypotheses I and II are supported. Pearson coefficients of correlation indicate that a positive relationship exists for each hypothesis. For Hypothesis I coefficients range from .040 for pay to .270 for co-workers. All are significant at the .01 level except pay, and there is no evidence that the pay coefficient is statistically significant. The coefficients of correlations supporting Hypothesis II range from .164 for work to .415 for finances. All coefficients are significant at the .01 level. All distributions are skewed. The skewness and possible homogeniety of the sample may in all probability account for the low values of the coefficients. The second conclusion is that military officers receive greater satisfactions from their military careers than workers in civilian industry. When retrospective military career JDI means are compared with industry JDI means, the former score higher for work, promotion, and co-workers at the .01 level and supervision at the .05 level. There is no evidence of a significant difference between the two pay means. Moreover, when retrospective military JDI means are compared with current second career JDI means, the former score higher for total score, work, promotion, and co-workers at the .01 level and supervision at the .10 level. The latter score higher for pay at the .10 level. The third conclusion is that fully retired military officers receive greater satisfactions from their retired situations than retired industrial workers. The former score higher on every scale at the .01 level except for people where the level is .05. The two samples may not be comparable, but they are the only samples available. The fourth conclusion is that fully retired military officers and retired military officers currently working in a second career are about equally satisfied with their retired situations. A comparison of RDI means for each group results in no evidence of significant differences for total score and finances. Fully retired officers score 2.60 higher for work and activities and 2.45 higher for people while retired officers working in current second careers score 2.45 higher for health, all at the .01 level.