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K M Kilty

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PubMed1992

Retirement intentions among black professionals: implications for practice with older black adults.

This study examined the preretirement intentions of black professionals. The sample consisted of 234 blacks and was stratified by gender, age, and professional status. Based on a model developed for predicting the retirement intentions and attitudes of a sample of white professionals, six categories of independent variables (sociocultural, work history, alienation, leisure and social activities, financial planning, and plans for retirement life) were included in the analysis. Professionals who were highly committed to their work, had few financial investments, and socialized primarily with co-workers tended to avoid planning for retirement. These results have important implications for practitioners concerned with more effectively meeting the preretirement and retirement needs of older black adults.

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PubMed1991

Adjustment to retirement: continuity vs. discontinuity.

This research examines gender differences in adjustment to retirement during the first year of retirement. It identifies differences in patterns of adjustment and differences in the discriminating variables that predict these patterns. The study was longitudinal in design and included a pretest interview of 250 people at the time of retirement, a posttest interview of 242 retirees six months after retirement, and a one-year follow-up of 222 completed by mail. A significant main effect for time was found for all three adjustment variables, with well-being declining at the six-month interval. A discriminant analysis of three types of adjustment groups revealed that responses to retirement varies depending on several factors. The findings suggest the need for a dynamic view of continuity theory.

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PubMed1990

Drinking styles of adolescents and young adults.

Drinking among adolescents and young adults has received more attention during the recent past, but little research has focused on the drinking styles that might characterize younger people. A typology of drinking behavior has special relevance for this group, since the adolescent years and young adult years are formative in the development of drinking habits. This study used a model that had been applied to "normal" drinking behaviors of adults. However, the set of drinking variables was expanded to cover a wider range of activities, and a second set of behaviors, intended to reflect potential "problem" drinking, were derived from the National Council on Alcoholism criteria for the diagnosis of alcoholism. The set of 55 "normal" drinking behaviors was factor analyzed, yielding a six-factor structure. The first four factors were quite similar to previous work on adult drinking styles, and the remaining two factors clearly related to the drinking of younger people. The "problem" drinking variables yielded a two-factor structure, one set consisting of serious but uncommon experiences and the second set consisting of less serious and more common experiences. Several of the "normal" drinking factors were significant predictors of the "problem" drinking scores, suggesting that certain styles of drinking are more likely than others to lead to later problems.

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PubMed1989

Retirement financial planning among black professionals.

The extent and patterns of financial planning among 234 black professionals was compared with those of white professionals. The data revealed similar expectations of continued income, supplementing finances by working in another occupation, pension income, and dependency on spouses for income. Although they invested less in stocks and bonds and bank certificates, income and age were the most significant predictors of financial planning.

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PubMed1987

Drinking styles and drinking problems.

Little research has focused on the range of drinking styles within a particular society. The intent of this study was to continue the development of an empirical typology of drinking behavior by replicating and extending the results of two previous projects. The earlier work had looked mainly at "normal" drinking, while this study placed more emphasis on types of problem drinking and on the relationships among various types of "normal" and "problem" drinking. The data were taken from a 1979 national probability sample of the adult population of the United States, with 1,169 cases classified as current drinkers. The results clearly showed that a variety of drinking styles exist, regardless of whether one is concerned with "normal" or "pathological" drinking. More importantly, certain types of "normal" drinking and types of comportment while drinking were powerful predictors of "problem" drinking.

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PubMed1985

Predicting the retirement intentions and attitudes of professional workers.

The purpose of this study was to examine the intentions about and attitudes toward retirement of professional workers, one of the more neglected groups in the retirement literature. Four types of professionals were represented: attorneys, social workers, high school teachers, and college professors. Intentions were defined in terms of projections regarding when respondents planned to retire, consideration of early retirement, and thinking about life after retirement. Attitudes were measured by using a set of three previously developed attitude scales. Six kinds of independent variables were controlled: (a) certain social factors (gender, age, and profession), (b) alienation from work and everyday life, (c) work history, (d) life-long habits of using free time constructively, (e) extensiveness of financial preparation, and plans for second careers and new involvements were the most consistent predictors of both intentions and attitudes. Alienation and certain types of financial preparation were by far the major variables.

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PubMed1976

Attitudes toward aging and towards the needs of older people.

In order to explore the underlying dimensionality of beliefs about aging, two sets of opinion statements (one dealing with general attitudes toward aging and the other with programmatic issues) were factor analyzed for two age groups: persons under 60 (N = 290) and persons 60 and older (N = 181). For the first set of social-psychological belief statements, a common factor structure was found for the two age groups. For the second set of programmatic statements, there was some communality between age groups, but most of the items loading on the factors tended to be age-specific. The belief structure of the older group was generally more complex and variegated than was the case with the younger group. Except where the items were personal relevance, positive and negative items tended to load on separate, unipolar factors.

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PubMed1975

Attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism among professionals and nonprofessionals.

Analysis of the responses of graduate students, professional social service agency workers and community residents to scales measuring attitudes and beliefs about alcohol and alcoholism suggests that the professionals tend to reflect the opinions and biases of the community within which they work. The results are discussed in terms of the usefulness of the multidimensional model of attitude structure for comparing attitudes among various groups and the implications for professional and community education programs.

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