TY - JOUR T1 - Productive and Social Engagement Following Driving Cessation: A Couple-Based Analysis JF - Research on Aging Y1 - 2015 A1 - Angela L Curl A1 - Proulx, Christine M. A1 - Stowe, James D. A1 - Teresa M Cooney KW - Adult children KW - Employment and Labor Force KW - Health Conditions and Status KW - Methodology KW - Other AB - Drawing on interdependence theory, this study examined the cross-spouse impact of driving cessation on productive (work, formal volunteering, and informal volunteering) and social engagement of older couples aged 65 using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998 2010; N = 1,457 couples). Multilevel modeling results indicate that driving cessation reduced husbands productive and social engagement, and wives productive engagement. Spousal driving cessation reduced husbands likelihood of working or formal volunteering, and wives likelihood of working or informal volunteering. The more time since spousal driving cessation, the less likely husbands were to work and the less likely wives were to formally volunteer. Results suggest the need for greater recognition of the impact of driving cessation on couples, rather than just individuals, as well as the need for enhanced services or rehabilitation efforts to maintain driving even among couples with one remaining driver. PB - 37 VL - 37 UR - http://roa.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/27/0164027514527624.abstract IS - 2 U4 - driving cessation/engagement/employment/volunteering/married couples/dyadic study ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Giving Up the Keys: How Driving Cessation Affects Engagement in Later Life JF - Gerontologist Y1 - 2014 A1 - Angela L Curl A1 - Stowe, James D. A1 - Teresa M Cooney A1 - Proulx, Christine M. KW - Adult children KW - Employment and Labor Force KW - Health Conditions and Status KW - Other AB - Purpose: Many older adults consider driving vital to maintaining their preferred lifestyle and engagement with society, yet it is normative for individuals to eventually stop driving. This study examined the impact of driving cessation on older adults' productive and social engagement and whether their mental and physical health mediated this relationship. Design and Methods: Multilevel modeling was used to analyze longitudinal data (N = 4,788 adults age 65 and over) from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2010). Results: Productive engagement (paid work, formal volunteering, and informal volunteering) was negatively affected when older adults stopped driving, but social engagement was not immediately compromised by their transition to nondriver status. The role of physical health and mental health as mediators in explaining this relationship was negligible. Implications: The results suggest that interventions aimed at maintaining nondrivers' participation in productive roles should focus on factors other than enhancement of health and well-being to spur greater engagement (e.g., availability of and barriers to use of public transportation). Also important in the intervention process is planning for mobility transitions. Future research should test for geographic (e.g., urban vs. rural) differences in the impact of driving cessation on productive and social engagement. PB - 54 VL - 54 IS - 3 N1 - Times Cited: 1 U4 - driving cessation/employment/engagement/health status/volunteering ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Multilevel Dyadic Study of the Impact of Retirement on Self-Rated Health: Does Retirement Predict Worse Health in Married Couples? JF - Research on Aging Y1 - 2014 A1 - Angela L Curl A1 - Aloen L. Townsend KW - Adult children KW - Demographics KW - Health Conditions and Status KW - Healthcare KW - Methodology KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction AB - Objectives: This study examined the effects of retirement on self-rated health for married couples, using interdependence and social stratification theoretical frameworks. Method: Dyadic multilevel modeling of data (N = 2,213 non- Hispanic couples) from 1992 to 2010 of the Health and Retirement Survey. Results: Retirement was associated with worse self-ratings of health (SRH) short term (ST) for both husbands and wives during the first couple of years of retirement. In addition, the longer the husbands (but not wives) were retired, the worse was their SRH. Cross-spouse effects varied by gender: When wives retired, their husbands SRH improved ST, but when husbands retired their wives SRH improved long term. Spouse education moderated the relationship between years since spouses retirement and SRH for wives. Discussion: Practitioners can use this information to help married couples through retirement planning and transitions. Results suggest that models of retirement in couples should pay greater attention to gender and other social stratification factors, spousal interdependence, and length of time since retirement. PB - 36 VL - 36 IS - 3 N1 - Date revised - 2014-12-01 Number of references - 58 U4 - Gerontology/GERIATRICS/retirement planning/married couples/socioeconomic status/self-rated health/longitudinal analysis ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Anticipatory Socialization for Retirement: A Multilevel Dyadic Model JF - CLINICAL GERONTOLOGIST Y1 - 2013 A1 - Angela L Curl A1 - Ingram, J. G. KW - Adult children KW - Demographics KW - Healthcare KW - Other KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction AB - Role theory, widely used to examine human behavior, has often been used to describe the transition from work to retirement. Anticipatory socialization, a role theory concept, describes the process that occurs prior to role transitions and assists in that transition by helping individuals learn the norms for the new role. However, not all workers engage in retirement planning. Lack of retirement planning is of concern because those individuals who do not plan for major life transitions tend to be less successful in adjusting to role changes. Data from the Health and Retirement Study were used; selection criteria required participants to be age 45 or older, working full- or part-time, and have complete data for the study variables. Multilevel modeling results of dyadic data from the Health and Retirement Study (N=1,028 dual-earner couples) indicate that older age, being White, higher income, greater retirement wealth, and looking forward to retirement predicted greater anticipatory socialization (i.e., thinking about and discussing retirement) by both husbands and wives. For wives only, having a health problem limiting work, higher spouse occupational status, and having a spouse who was looking forward to retirement predicted more anticipatory socialization. For husbands only, higher education, higher depressive symptomatology, and lower occupational status predicted more anticipatory socialization. This study found evidence of spousal congruence, with husbands, on average, engaging in more anticipatory socialization than wives. These findings identify couples that could most benefit from targeted efforts to increase anticipatory socialization, which predicts better retirement adjustment and satisfaction. PB - 36 VL - 36 IS - 4 U4 - DUAL-EARNER COUPLES/GERIATRICS/GERONTOLOGY/retirement planning/GENDER/PSYCHIATRY/anticipatory socialization/married couples/disparities/GERONTOLOGY ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Retirement Transitions Among Married Couples JF - Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health Y1 - 2008 A1 - Angela L Curl A1 - Aloen L. Townsend KW - Adult children KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction AB - Retirement is often viewed as an event when someone completely withdraws from paid employment. The purpose of the present study was to examine the patterns of retirement transitions evidenced in married couples in the Health and Retirement Study over an 8-year period (1992 to 2000). The sample consisted of White and Black married couples (N = 1,118) where both spouses were working and at least one spouse was aged 51 to 61 at baseline. A variety of complex retirement patterns were found. Husbands were more likely than wives to show a linear pattern (i.e., a transition directly from work to complete retirement). Transitions were related within couples. Policy and practice implications are discussed. PB - 23 VL - 23 IS - 1-2 U4 - Retirement Behavior/Labor--retirement decisions/Couples ER - TY - THES T1 - The Impact of Retirement on Trajectories of Physical Health of Married Couples T2 - Applied Social Sciences Y1 - 2007 A1 - Angela L Curl KW - Adult children KW - Health Conditions and Status KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction AB - Retirement's impact on health in married couples is important due to increasing life expectancy and the retirement of Baby Boomers. There is mixed evidence about retirement's effects, if any, on physical health. In addition, there is a lack of research that examines the effect of one spouse's retirement on the other spouse's health. Secondary analysis was conducted using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which was designed to obtain information about health and economic status from pre- to post-retirement. The sample consisted of 1,666 non-Hispanic married couples (176 Black couples and 1490 White couples) where both spouses participated in HRS from 1992 to 2000 and at least one spouse was age 51-61 at baseline. Political economy, social stratification, and interdependence theories provided the conceptual framework. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze spouses' short-term and long-term changes in health after retirement. Health was measured using four separate indicators (number of disease diagnoses, lower body difficulties, self-rated health, mortality). Retirement was operationalized two ways: self-defined retirement and labor force status (working, retirement, unemployed, disabled). Other predictors were demographics, health-related control variables and household characteristics. Husbands experienced an increase in their number of disease diagnoses and their risk of having at least one lower body difficulty (e.g., difficulty walking up a flight of stairs) during the first wave of their retirement, but fewer disease diagnoses long-term (i.e., up to 8 years post-retirement), compared to non-retired husbands. Wives experienced worse self-rated health during the first wave of their own retirement. Wives' retirement had a short-term positive impact on the self-rated health of husbands, but husbands' retirement did not affect wives' health. The health of certain individuals was more negatively affected by retirement than others due to their social stratification characteristics (race, education, income, wealth, age). Health disadvantage was predicted by both higher and lower social status (depending on gender, health outcome, retirement measure, and length of time since retirement). Findings of this study are important for social workers helping married couples through retirement transitions, for furthering empirical knowledge and research methodology, and for their implications for social justice and policy reform. Indexing (document details) JF - Applied Social Sciences PB - Case Western Reserve University CY - Cleveland, OH VL - Doctor of Philosophy UR - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Impact-of-Retirement-on-Trajectories-of-Health-Curl/8c86756ea2330c33ffc8f2c7f9ed6405761e8050 U4 - health status ER -