dc.contributor.advisor | Dougherty, Debbie S. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Frances L. McCuiston | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 Spring | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 2, 2010). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Dr. Debbie S. Dougherty, Dissertation Supervisor. | eng |
dc.description | Vita. | eng |
dc.description | Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2008. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Retirement is an important phase of life that may be viewed using two processes: identity and socialization. The purpose of this study is to explore the evolution of identity in communication about retirement. Eighty-four participants were interviewed representing the four phases of socialization: anticipatory, encounter, preretirement (metamorphosis), and retired (exit). Overall, a master narrative of retirement was discovered among the participants describing retirement as positive and hopeful. The anticipatory group expressed narrative identity in retirement in the theme anticipatory identity, focusing specifically on family role and social role identities. Encounter group participants expressed narrative identity in retirement as uncertain through themes of uncertain identity, stabilizing uncertainty, fear and uncertainty, and no uncertain terms. Preretirement participants revealed their narrative identity in retirement as fixed or adjusting. Retired group members described narrative identity in retirement through the themes of role shifters, societal images, or new job-same self. This study revealed important phases of identity construction that paralleled socialization phases and the inclusion of roles described by participants as a bridge to forming identity. Future research on retirement should be conducted to explore issues found in this study.. | eng |
dc.description.bibref | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.format.extent | vi, 200 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.oclc | 609640904 | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/7108 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/7108 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Communication | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Retirement | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Identity (Philosophical concept) | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Retirees -- Social networks | eng |
dc.title | Life after work : identity, communication, and retirement | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Communication (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | eng |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | eng |