Continuity as a basis for change: leisure and male retirement

Expanding, Reducing, Concentrating and Diffusing: Post Retirement Leisure Behavior and Life Satisfaction

“…Approximately one-third of the sample was comprised of the expanders, who expanded their participation in leisure activities and demonstrated a strong tendency for innovation. By combining the diffusers with the expanders, more than half of the retirees participated in a larger number of leisure activities than before, which is a finding that practically contradicts previous studies (e.g., Iso-Ahola et al, 1994;Kelly, 1983;Long, 1987). In addition, the findings from my study identified reducers as the largest Downloaded by [Tufts University] at 06:56 08 October 2014 group in the sample.…”

“…Retirees did not tend to participate in more activities than preretirement. Rather, they increased their participation in the same activities (Atchley, 1993;Dumazedier, 1972;Iso-Ahola et al, 1994;Kelly, 1983Kelly, , 1987Kremer & Harpaz, 1982;Levinson, 1986;Long, 1987;Parker, 1982). However, retirement effects seemed to differ within subgroups and activities.…”

“…(1) cross-sectional investigations of different age groups (e.g., Iso-Ahola et al, 1994;Robinson & Godbey, 1997), (2) memory-based examinations of changes in leisure participation subsequent to transitions in life (e.g., , (3) longitudinal research (e.g., Bennett, 1998;Bruce, Seeman, Merrill & Blaszer, 1994;Long, 1987;Stanley & Freysinger;, and (4) a combination of these methodologies (e.g., Verbrugge et al,1996).…”

Leisure and resistance in an ageing society

“…Nevertheless there is also evidence that leisure is a space for resistance, self-expression and enhancement. Many qualitative studies reiterate the respondent's subjective perception of an ageing body but a mind which is actively and spiritedly surviving the physical disadvantages of ageing (Long and Wimbush, 1985;Kelly, 1987;McKeever, 1992;Thompson, 1992;Kamler and Feldman, 1994). Although most of these studies document case studies of those who have acquiesced to ageism, they also present cases of those who have resisted in some way, thus demonstrating the potential that leisure provides for resistance to ageism.…”

Psychosocial Aspects of Aging

“…The theory holds that rather than developing new roles, retired individuals seek to increase time in their remaining roles to make their time before and after retirement as similar as possible. Long (1987) suggested that those who adjust most successfully to retirement have made the least changes in their lives. Studies documenting the continuation of work and/or productive activity in older adults provide support for both the activity and continuity theories (Glass, Seeman, Herzog, Kahn, & Berkman, 1995;Parnes & Sommers, 1994).…”