The purpose of this study was to examine the retirement adjustment of faculty members retired from the nine state universities in Florida between 1975 and 1980. Specifically, the five objectives for this study pertained to respondents' conditions prior to their retirement, the extent that they engaged in pre-retirement planning, the conditions which they expected to experience in retirement, the actual conditions experienced in retirement, and the number of years retired. Each condition was examined relative to the availability and utilization of university facilities and services to retired faculty, their participation in professional and non-professional activities, and their annual income. / Of these nine universities, faculty retired from the four oldest institutions were chosen as the sample for the study. A total of 230 faculty retired from the Florida State University, Florida A and M University, the University of Florida, and the University of South Florida were selected to receive a 45-item mail survey. There was a 60 percent return rate. / The results indicated that a moderate to high correlation exists between respondents expected conditions for retirement and their pre-retirement conditions, extent of pre-retirement planning and actual conditions experienced during retirement. When the actual conditions experienced during retirement were correlated with the number of years retired, very low correlations were found. Also, no relationship was found to exist between the four variables correlated with adjustment to retirement (actual and expected conditions, pre-retirement planning, and number of years retired.) / An examination of the effects that fulfillment of the five conditions (availability and utilization of university facilities and services, participation in professional and non-professional activities, and annual income) had on adjustment to retirement indicated that these conditions combined did not have a significant effect. The fulfillment of these conditions explained only about 14 percent of the variability in the adjustment to retirement. Only participation in professional activities had any statistical effect, though low, on faculty adjustment to retirement. / Since data revealed that the five conditions for retirement had no significant effect on adjustment to retirement, faculty adjustment to retirement may be more a product of their occupational status than the fulfillment of their expectations for retirement. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-12, Section: A, page: 3058. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76187 |
| Contributors | BRADLEY-LONG, LINDA KAY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 175 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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