Der Ruhestand kann die psychische Gesundheit verbessern, aber nicht für jedermann. Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommensgruppen zeigten eine anfängliche Verbesserung, aber dann nach etwa 2,5 Jahren ein Rückgang, wobei der verschwundene Flitterwocheneffekt. In der Gruppe mit hohem Einkommen hat sich die psychische Gesundheit vor und nach der Pensionierung nicht verändert.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mental-health-post-retirement/
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325000829
From the linked article:
**Retirement can boost mental health, but not for everyone**. A new study shows that income, gender, and job type influence whose well-being flourishes and who struggles once the 9-to-5 workdays are ended.
Across all groups, retirement was linked with improved mental health, but the pattern differed by income. **Those in the low-income group showed an initial improvement, but then a decline after about two-and-a-half years was seen, characterized by a “reverse U-shape” or what’s called the fading honeymoon effect**. The middle-income group saw a two-phase model: improvement before retirement, followed by a more modest improvement after. **In the high-income group, mental health didn’t change before and after retirement**, but showed a positive spike during the retirement year. Middle- and high-income individuals with already high mental health improved less after retirement; that is, they had less “room to grow”. No such effect was found in the low-income group.
pro slavery ass study. XD
People with money have easier happier lives. People without money don’t. Shocking.
I am curious about how many of those retired high income people continue working but at a more leisurely pace.
Like the occasional consultation and small project.
Having nothing to do is a quick way towards depression and other kinds of mental issues.
So money CAN buy you happiness….
Next: people who retire in good health are often happier than those who retire with debilitating diseases.
It’s almost like all these years of being told money doesn’t buy happiness were lies, huh?
It’s almost like not worrying about money can help you be happy.
Whats that supposed to mean? People didn’t like not having to work? What planet was this research conducted on?
It’s better to be rich and healthy than to be poor and ill. (:
Wow that’s so absolutely shocking I’d like to pay $20 million to research this further.
Retirement is a double edged sword for a lot of people. On the one hand, the frustrations and annoyances of work (and possibly the physical strain on your body, depending on what you did) are now over with. On the other hand, you loose a lot of social connectivity and physical activity that you got with out any effort other than „Going to work“ which you had to do anyway. So after retirement, you must actually put effort into these things, where before you did not. This is, I imagine, especially true for men and also more difficult to do, the less money you have in retirement.
If you DONT do this, you end up „rotting in the recliner“. Anecdotally, I had a neighbor retired from Ford for like 15 years next door to me, he ran a little lawn mowing business, and his primary reason was he saw plenty of his friends from Ford retire, plop down in front of the TV, then just die after a few years. He said he ran the lawn mowing business so he could
1. Stay physically active
2. Just get out and meet people.
The thing that kills people the fastest in old age is isolation and inactivity.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy peace of mind.
Retirement is just bad for most people.
They have nothing to do all day because everything costs money so they just sit in front of the TV all day.
This is also why you see so many retired peoplep going and working in charity shops and such.
I dunno. I got depressed as hell after about 6 months when I tried to retire. And I’m upper middle class
> Jobs that were physically demanding before retirement had a negative effect on the mental health of those in the middle-income group – this effect persisted even after accounting for gender, education, marital status, and age.
Dealing with the damage done to their bodies due to a more physical job, presumably?
„Money doesn’t buy happiness“.