Coping With Retirement: Well-Being, Health, and Religion

摘要

Lee (2000) conducted a 6-year longitudinal study on 7,527 community dwellers who were 70 years of age or older and compared the findings from self-assessed health measures with those from functional status assessments by health and social services. [...] our findings on the role of religion and spirituality are of particular interest because they suggest that, for relatively healthy and active retirees, these variables tend to operate as secondary coping mechanisms rather than primary coping mechanisms (assuming that they play a part at all) and that some of the previous reports that emphasize the importance of religious coping may have the most relevance for individuals of more extreme age and fragility.