PRERETIREMENT PLANNING OF FEMALE REGISTERED NURSES.
Contributors: University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Women's Studies.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this research was to test a model for understanding preretirement planning among working women, and to describe and explain the preretirement health and financial plans of a select group of working women. The sample consisted of 145 working female registered nurses, 40 years of age and older. Roy's (1984) role function model was the theoretical framework used to guide this research.

Data were collected from a major health sciences institution in the South. A multivariate method of analysis was used. The criterion of.05 level of statistical significance was employed.

Data were obtained through the use of a questionnaire formulated from three different instruments: Attitudes Toward Retirement, developed by Glamser (1976); the Retirement Success Profile, developed by Johnson (1979); and the Preretirement Scale, developed by Boyack and Tiberi (1975). Together, these instruments measured knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of women regarding health and financial preretirement planning.

The results of this study indicated that formal and informal methods of planning for retirement were limited. Knowledge of health maintenance issues was found to contribute to variance on preretirement health planning, and knowledge of economic issues were found to contribute to variance on preretirement financial planning.

There were eight recommendations that were made subsequent to the findings of this study. More research to delineate other predictive variables of preretirement planning of working women needs to be investigated. Research designed to include registered nurses in various other work settings, non nurses, and a heterogeneous sample to further validate the findings reported in this study is needed. In addition, research is needed to determine the usefulness of the theoretical framework in other areas of preretirement planning, and if a difference exists in preretirement planning among nurses working in education and service. Also, preretirement planning programs need to be enhanced to meet the needs of working women. A final recommendation was that a longitudinal study be conducted to determine if women who make preretirement health and financial plans have a more positive life satisfaction in retirement.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-08, Section: A, page: 2898.

Thesis (D.S.N.)--UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM, 1990.

School code: 0005.