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Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur äldre människor hanterar övergången från arbetsliv till att bli pensionär. Undersökningen avser att besvara ett antal frågeställningar. Den första är att besvara hur individen hanterar pensionsövergången. Den andra frågeställningen är att besvara om det finns en relation mellan hur individen hanterar pensionsövergången och ett salutogent perspektiv utifrån Antonovskys teori, KASAM. Den tredje frågan som undersökningen ämnar besvara är hur individen upplever rollskiftet som uppstår när hon går i pension, då främst utifrån begreppen rollförväntningar, rollförlust samt rollkonflikt. Den sista frågeställningen studien försöker besvara är hur individens livskvalitet påverkas av att bli pensionär. Studien har gjorts med en kvalitativ metod. Det insamlade datamaterialet består av fyra intervjuer. Resultaten ger indikationer om faktorer som kan ha betydelse för hur individen hanterar pensionsövergången. Dessa faktorer är, hur individen upplever kontroll över när pensionering sker och om hon har förberett sig på den kommande pensioneringen, hur hon upplever delaktighet i samhället samt har meningsfulla aktiviteter att ägna sig åt som pensionär. Ett annat viktigt fynd är den centrala roll som familj och hälsa har för en framgångsrik hantering av övergången från att vara yrkesarbetare till att bli pensionär. Undersökningens resultat kan emellertid inte användas som ett underlag för en bedömning om pensionering är ett trauma för individen eller inte. / The purpose of this study is to examine how elderly persons handles the transition from work to retirement. The study aims to answer a number of questions. The first is to answer how the individual handles the transition into retirement. The second question is to answer whether there is a relationship between how the individual handles retirement transition and a salutogenic perspective based on Antonovsky's theory, SOC. The third question that the study intends to answer is how individuals perceive the role shift that occurs when she or he retires, mainly based on the concepts of role expectations, role loss and role conflict. The last question to answer is how the individual's quality of life affect of becoming a pensioner. The study has a qualitative method. The collected data consists of four interviews. The results indicate that several factors may influence how individuals handles the retirement transition. One important factor is how individuals perceive control over when retirement occurs and if she has prepared for the upcoming retirement, how she perceives participation in society and have meaningful activities to commit in when they are pensioners. Another finding is that family and health can be important for successful management of the transition from being a skilled worker to become a pensioner. The results can not be used as a basis for assessing whether retirement is a trauma for the individual or not.

Retirement is a significant life transition for many older adults, and historically most retirement planning focusses on financial planning. Not only is there far less importance placed on non-financial retirement planning, but also there is also little research on what planning priorities contribute to retirement satisfaction. This dissertation presents two studies conducted with the purpose of identifying these priorities. Study one involved one-on-one semi-structured interviews of 16 retired and non-retired individuals who were engaged in an endurance serious leisure sport. It revealed similarities and differences between pre-retired and retired participants as well as overall contradictions between participants’ perceived and practised retirement strategies. While a general lack of leisure retirement planning was observed, self-determination theory’s precepts of autonomy, competence, and relatedness fulfilment were predominant in the significance the endurance sport held for participants’ retirement plans and appeared to contribute significantly to retirement well-being. The second study was a sequential transformative mixed-method design of 50 retired individuals involving an online survey and focus group discussion and was founded on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP). Qualitative data were analysed using Constant Comparison Method, Word Count, and Classical Content Analysis. Quantitative methods were applied to determine if retirement satisfaction and vitality related to SDT constructs. Using multiple linear regression analyses, autonomy (β = .43; 95% CI .04 - .22; p = .01), leisure priority (β =.28; 95% CI -.01 - .33; p =.05), and casual leisure competence (β =.68; 95% CI .02 - .59; p =.04) emerged as items most related to retirement satisfaction, while relatedness (β .32; 95% CI .14 – 1.44; p = .02) and autonomy satisfaction (β =.27; 95% CI -.01 – 1.26; p =.05) were associated with vitality. / Graduate

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