Beyond health and wealth: Predictors of women's retirement satisfaction

International Journal of Aging and Human Development

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-214

  Price, Christine ^a   Balaswamy, Shantha ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OLD AGE ASSISTANCE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 65349114111     PISSN: 00914150     EISSN: 15413535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/AG.68.3.b     Document Type: Article

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