Platts, LG;
Webb, E;
Zins, M;
Goldberg, M;
Netuveli, G;
(2015)
Mid-life occupational grade and quality of life following retirement: a 16-year follow-up of the French GAZEL study.
Aging & Mental Health
, 19
(7)
634 - 646.
10.1080/13607863.2014.955458.
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Abstract
Objectives: This article aims to contribute to the literature on life course influences upon quality of life by examining pathways linking social position in middle age to quality of life following retirement in French men and women. Method: Data are from the GAZEL cohort study of employees at the French national gas and electricity company. A finely grained measure of occupational grade in 1989 was obtained from company records. Annual self-completion questionnaires provided information on quality of life in 2005, measured with the CASP-19 scale, and on participants’ recent circumstances 2002–2005: mental health, physical functioning, wealth, social status, neighbourhood characteristics, social support and social participation. Path analysis using full information maximum likelihood estimation was performed on 11,293 retired participants. Results: Higher occupational grade in 1989 was associated, in a graded relationship, with better quality of life 16 years later. This association was accounted for by individuals’ more recent circumstances, particularly their social status, mental health, physical functioning and wealth. Conclusion: The graded relationship between occupational grade in mid-life and quality of life after labour market exit was largely accounted for by more recent socio-economic circumstances and state of health. The results support a pathway model for the development of social disparities in quality of life, in which earlier social position shapes individual circumstances in later life.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Mid-life occupational grade and quality of life following retirement: a 16-year follow-up of the French GAZEL study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13607863.2014.955458 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2014.955458 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.Note: The bars display 95% confidence intervals.Note: The standardized estimates were calculated using stdyx standardization in which both exogenous and endogenous variables are standardized. Figures in brackets are 95% confidence intervals. Paths which were not significant at the 95% confidence level are displayed as dashed lines. Correlations between the mediating variables are not displayed, nor are the control variables: gender, age, age-squared, age at retirement and years since retirement.Disturbances of endogenous variables are expressed as proportions of unexplained variance: A: 0.954; B: 0.950; C: 0.913; D: 0.754; E: 0.999; F: 0.999; G: 0.998; H: 0.990; I: 0.625. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468726 |
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