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Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers
Planning for future health and social services (HSS) workforces must be informed by an understanding of how workers view their work within the context of their life and the challenges they will face across the course of life. There is a range of policies and provisions that states and organisations...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7369794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32630072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134722 |
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author | Moriarty, John Gillen, Patricia Mallett, John Manthorpe, Jill Schröder, Heike McFadden, Paula |
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description | Planning for future health and social services (HSS) workforces must be informed by an understanding of how workers view their work within the context of their life and the challenges they will face across the course of life. There is a range of policies and provisions that states and organisations can adopt to create sustainable careers, support wellbeing at work, and extend working lives where appropriate, but the potential impact of these policies on the make-up of the workforce remains under investigation. This paper makes the case that service planners need to appreciate complex interplay between wellbeing and career decisions when planning the future workforce. It makes use of a recent survey of United Kingdom (UK) social workers (n = 1434) to illustrate this interplay in two ways. First, we present the analysis of how social workers’ perception of retirement and extended working lives are associated with dimensions of Work-Related Quality of Life (WRQL). We find that social workers who agreed that a flexible working policy would encourage them to delay their retirement scored lower on the Home-Work Interface and Control at Work dimensions of WRQL, while social workers who indicated a perception that their employer would not wish them to work beyond a certain age had lower Job and Career Satisfaction scores. Second, we propose a new typology of retirement outlooks using latent class analysis of these attitudinal measures. An 8-class solution is proposed, and we demonstrate the predictive utility of this scheme. Results are discussed in terms of the challenges for ageing Western populations and the usefulness of analysis such as this in estimating the potential uptake and impact of age-friendly policies and provisions. |
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spelling | pubmed-73697942020-07-21 Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers Moriarty, John Gillen, Patricia Mallett, John Manthorpe, Jill Schröder, Heike McFadden, Paula Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Planning for future health and social services (HSS) workforces must be informed by an understanding of how workers view their work within the context of their life and the challenges they will face across the course of life. There is a range of policies and provisions that states and organisations can adopt to create sustainable careers, support wellbeing at work, and extend working lives where appropriate, but the potential impact of these policies on the make-up of the workforce remains under investigation. This paper makes the case that service planners need to appreciate complex interplay between wellbeing and career decisions when planning the future workforce. It makes use of a recent survey of United Kingdom (UK) social workers (n = 1434) to illustrate this interplay in two ways. First, we present the analysis of how social workers’ perception of retirement and extended working lives are associated with dimensions of Work-Related Quality of Life (WRQL). We find that social workers who agreed that a flexible working policy would encourage them to delay their retirement scored lower on the Home-Work Interface and Control at Work dimensions of WRQL, while social workers who indicated a perception that their employer would not wish them to work beyond a certain age had lower Job and Career Satisfaction scores. Second, we propose a new typology of retirement outlooks using latent class analysis of these attitudinal measures. An 8-class solution is proposed, and we demonstrate the predictive utility of this scheme. Results are discussed in terms of the challenges for ageing Western populations and the usefulness of analysis such as this in estimating the potential uptake and impact of age-friendly policies and provisions. MDPI 2020-06-30 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7369794/ /pubmed/32630072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134722 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Moriarty, John Gillen, Patricia Mallett, John Manthorpe, Jill Schröder, Heike McFadden, Paula Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title | Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title_full | Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title_fullStr | Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title_short | Seeing the Finish Line? Retirement Perceptions and Wellbeing among Social Workers |
title_sort | seeing the finish line? retirement perceptions and wellbeing among social workers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7369794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32630072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134722 |
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