Metaphors for retirement: Unshackled from schedules

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-324

  Sargent, Leisa D ^a   Bataille, Christine D ^b   Vough, Heather C ^b   Lee, Mary Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Identity work; Meaning; Metaphor; Qualitative analysis; Retirees; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051789123     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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