When a “worker” becomes an “older worker”: The effects of age‐related social identity on attitudes towards retirement and work
By Donatienne Desmette, M. Gaillard. 2008
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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Age discrimination in the workplace: Identifying as a late-career worker and its relationship with engagement and intended retirement age (2014, background): “Desmette and Gaillard (2008) support this proposal in their study of employees aged from 50 to 59, where those who had low affective identification as “older workers” were more likely to devalue the importance of doing their job well and of having a successful working life.”
- Moving European research on work and ageing forward: Overview and agenda (2010, unknown): “Recently, identity theory and relative deprivation have been related to age stereotypes to better understand the mechanisms behind age stereotypes (see, for example, Desmette & Gaillard, 2008 ; Tougas, Lagace, de la Sablonniere, & Kocum, 2004 ).”
- (In)validating Stereotypes About Older Workers Influences Their Intentions to Retire Early and to Learn and Develop (2010, unknown): “Indeed, this speaks to the fact that, in addition to self-definition as an older worker (see Desmette & Gaillard, 2008 ; Gaillard & Desmette, 2008 ), other variables associated with the social identity of older workers (ie, the perception of contextual cues about the alleged value of older workers”
- Perceived organizational membership and the retention of older workers (2011, unknown): “Conversely, older workers with adequate financial resources are more likely to exit from the labor force (Chen & Scott, 2006; Davey, 2008; Desmette & Gaillard, 2008; Mermin, Johnson, & Murphy, 2007; Parkinson, 2002).”