Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Research on Aging
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Stanford, E. P.
Right arrow Articles by Peddecord, K. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Early Retirement and Functional Impairment from a Multi-Ethnic Perspective

E. Percil Stanford

San Diego State University

Catherine J. Happersept

San Diego State University

Deborah J. Morton

San Diego State University

Craig A. Molgaard

San Diego State University

K. Michael Peddecord

San Diego State University

The overall purpose of the present study was to identify differences between the early retired and the nonretired among three ethnic groups: Whites, Blacks, and Mexican Americans. Analysis focused on a community-based sample of 1,146 residents of San Diego County aged 45 to 64 years. Three categories of variables that were hypothesized to contribute to early retirement were examined: demographic characteristics, self-reported health measures, and Older American Resource and Service (OARS)based objective summary ratings of functional impairment. Results were consistent with the literature and indicated that functional impairment was higher for the early retired within each of the ethnic groups. For both retirement status groups, Mexican Americans reported the most impairment of the three ethnic groups. Discriminant analysis was used to identify the predictive value of the three categories of variables for early retirement status and yielded the following results: age, gender, and the mental health OARS objective functional-impairment score were the only significant discriminators for all groups. Mexican Americans appeared to have the greatest variety of factors contributing to early retirement status, with fewer variables involved for Blacks and fewer still for Whites.

Research on Aging, Vol. 13, No. 1, 5-38 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027591131001
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Journal of Family IssuesHome page
D. B. Smith and P. Moen
Retirement Satisfaction for Retirees and their Spouses: Do Gender and the Retirement Decision-Making Process Matter?
Journal of Family Issues, March 1, 2004; 25(2): 262 - 285.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Research on AgingHome page
J. B. Williamson and T. K. McNamara
Interrupted Trajectories and Labor Force Participation: The Effect of Unplanned Changes in Marital and Disability Status
Research on Aging, March 1, 2003; 25(2): 87 - 121.
[Abstract] [PDF]