Attitudes toward Work and Retirement in Sweden: A Multigroup, Multivariate Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Skoglund
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Positive Attitudes

This study examines various work and retirement orientations and ascertains how they apply to four a priori-defined groups. Questionnaire data from an age-stratified random sample of 584 men and women, aged sixty to seventy-five, were analyzed by means of stepwise multiple discriminant analysis. Fourteen out of twenty-five variables contributed significantly to three functions, correctly classifying 54 per cent of the individuals. It was found that preretirees, although anticipating loss of employment after retiring, displayed the least work satisfaction and preferred a lower retirement age, manifesting simultaneous positive attitudes toward retirees and their gatherings; early retirees were characterized by negative attitudes toward work as well as retirement and by ambiguous views of retirees and social integration; working retirees appeared the most work-oriented and evidenced distaste for retirement; fully retired persons were characterized as retirement-oriented and as being negative toward social activities. The results are discussed within the context of previous hypotheses and related findings.

Retirement-age preferences of women and men aged 55–64 years in Sweden

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 943-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIIU SOIDRE
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Push And Pull

This article presents an analysis of the factors that were associated with preferences for ‘early retirement’ or ‘late exit’ from paid work in Sweden. It draws upon special questions that were added to the country's Labour Force Survey of 2001 and were put to a sample of more than 1,000 people aged 55–64 years who were (self-) employed. Separate models of the factors influencing women's and men's preferred retirement age were calibrated, using variables that described current working conditions, whether the respondents perceived themselves as being appreciated as employees, and their attitudes to work and to private or home life. Among the findings, a positive attitude towards work motivated both women and men to stay in work beyond the normal retirement age, while positive attitudes towards private life promoted an early exit. Poor working conditions generated negative attitudes towards work (and vice versa). The strengths of various push and pull factors were gender-specific: for women, a trying job tended to push them out of the labour market; for men, a socially-rewarding job tended to keep them in the labour force. The more that men worked mainly for pecuniary reasons, the stronger their wish for an early exit. Men who felt that they were unappreciated at work preferred early retirement: in some of these cases, the ‘push’ factor was related to ageism. As people approach retirement age, many appear to reconceptualise more positively their life outside the work place.

Analysis of Course Type, Gender, and Personal Incentives to Exercise

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel E. Finkenberg ◽  
James M. Dinucci ◽  
Sandra L. McCune ◽  
E. Donice McCune
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Canonical Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Main Effects

206 women and 88 men enrolled in classes requiring different amounts of physical activity were administered the Personal Incentives for Exercise Questionnaire A two-way multivariate analysis of variance, with course type and gender as the categorical independent variables and 10 subscale scores representing incentives to exercise as the multivariate dependent variables, was completed. Canonical discriminant analysis was used to identify which of the incentives is most useful in discriminating among participants in active and less active classes or between men and women. For main effects, analysis indicated an over-all significant difference for both course type and gender. Men scored higher than women on activity and on competition, for example, while women scored higher on appearance and weight management.

Positive attitudes on aging: a life course view

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 1415-1415
Author(s):  
Quincy M. Samus
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Modifiable Factors ◽  
Lothian Birth Cohort ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Healthy Community

Chosen as paper of the month in this issue of International Psychogeriatrics, Shenkin and colleagues (2014) tackle the complex but important issue of how older adults perceive the experience of aging and the life course factors that relate to these perceptions and attitudes. Taking advantage of data from a large, well-characterized group of healthy, community-living older persons in the United Kingdom (the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1963; Deary et al., 2007), the authors conclude that in spite of common tendencies in the medical literature, the popular press, or cultural stereotypes to focus on negative aspects of aging, older persons themselves generally report positive attitudes toward aging. Taking a life course approach, the authors conclude that the most significant and pervasive correlates associated with positive attitudes of aging across three assessed domains (psychosocial loss, physical change, and psychological growth) are personality traits. In contrast, affective disturbances (depression/anxiety) are associated with more negative attitudes to aging. The authors also identify other potentially modifiable factors associated with attitudes to aging, including physical disability, social class, or living circumstances. The authors point out several limitations of this work, including the self-selected sample limiting generalizability; psychometric and conceptual drawbacks of the Attitudes on Aging Questionnaire; and variance not explained by a priori clinically focused predictor variables.

scholarly journals Palestinian Attitudes Towards Settlers in the West Bank

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tesea Conte Thornton ◽  
Robert Kubinec
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
West Bank ◽  
The West ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Contact Effect ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Professional Contact

We present survey data from 1,573 West Bank Palestinians with which we estimate that the average Palestinian lives 14 km (UI 11 to 18 km) from the closest Israeli settlement. We also show with this data that while Palestinians in general hold negative attitudes towards settlers in the West Bank, Palestinians living in closer proximity to a settlement report more neutral attitudes towards settlers. Multivariate analysis shows that this effect appears to be driven by social and professional contact: Palestinians who have interacted with a settler or worked in a settlement present more positive attitudes towards settlers while distance loses its ability to predict attitudes. Since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the majority of respondents stated that they have lost either a job or a business from COVID-related restrictions, suggesting that this positive contact effect could dissipate as Palestinians have less reason to interact with Israelis.

Interculturalism and the Acceptance of Minority Groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maykel Verkuyten ◽  
Kumar Yogeeswaran
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Situational Effect

Abstract. Multiculturalism has been criticized and rejected by an increasing number of politicians, and social psychological research has shown that it can lead to outgroup stereotyping, essentialist thinking, and negative attitudes. Interculturalism has been proposed as an alternative diversity ideology, but there is almost no systematic empirical evidence about the impact of interculturalism on the acceptance of migrants and minority groups. Using data from a survey experiment conducted in the Netherlands, we examined the situational effect of promoting interculturalism on acceptance. The results show that for liberals, but not for conservatives, interculturalism leads to more positive attitudes toward immigrant-origin groups and increased willingness to engage in contact, relative to multiculturalism.

Comparison of Examinees’ and Doctors’ Judgement of Health Status Using Data in an AMHTS

1984 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Y. Sekita ◽  
T. Ohta ◽  
M. Inoue ◽  
H. Takeda
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Subjective Symptom ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Testing System ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Canonical Axis ◽  
Using Data

SummaryJudgements of examinees’ health status by doctors and by the examinees themselves are compared applying multiple discriminant analysis. The doctors’ judgements of the examinees’ health status are studied comparatively using laboratory data and the examinees’ subjective symptom data.This data was obtained in an Automated Multiphasic Health Testing System. We discuss the health conditions which are significant for the judgement of doctors about the examinees. The results show that the explanatory power, when using subjective symptom data, is fair in the case of the doctors’ judgement. We found common variables, such as nervousness, lack of perseverance etc., which form the first canonical axis.

Implications of higher retirement age for the labor market

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanova ◽  
A. Balaev ◽  
E. Gurvich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Demographic Projections ◽  
The Impact

The paper considers the impact of the increase in retirement age on labor supply and economic growth. Combining own estimates of labor participation and demographic projections by the Rosstat, the authors predict marked fall in the labor force (by 5.6 million persons over 2016-2030). Labor demand is also going down but to a lesser degree. If vigorous measures are not implemented, the labor force shortage will reach 6% of the labor force by the period end, thus restraining economic growth. Even rapid and ambitious increase in the retirement age (by 1 year each year to 65 years for both men and women) can only partially mitigate the adverse consequences of demographic trends.

A Mathematical Model on Social Integration Explaining Global Suicide Rate Among Men and Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Mark Borres ◽  
◽  
Jergen Orias ◽  
Alvin Mercado ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Men And Women

Multivariate consumption profiling (MCP) for intelligent meter systems: a methodology to define categories and levels

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Solanas ◽  
M. R. Cussó
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Reference Population ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Conceptual Schema ◽  
Data Variability ◽  
Water Companies ◽  
Analyse Data

Multivariate Consumption Profiling (MCP) is a methodology to analyse the readings made by Intelligent Meter (IM) systems. Even in advanced water companies with well supported IM, full statistical analyses are not performed, since no efficient methods are available to deal with all the data items. Multivariate Analysis has been proposed as a convenient way to synthesise all IM information. MCP uses Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Discriminant Analysis to analyse data variability by categories and levels, in a cyclical improvement process. MCP obtains a conceptual schema of a reference population on a set of classifying tables, one for each category. These tables are quantitative concepts to evaluate consumption, meter sizing, leakage and undermetering for populations and groupings and individual cases. They give structuring items to enhance “traditional” statistics. All the relevant data from each new meter reading can be matched to the classifying tables. A set of indexes is computed and thresholds are used to select those cases with the desired profiles. The paper gives an example of a MCP conceptual schema for five categories, three variables, and five levels, and obtains its classifying tables. It shows the use of case profiles to implement actions in accordance with the operative objectives.

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