The Components of Happiness: Implications for Retirement Counselling

The suggestion is made that retirement be considered the most important criterion dimension of adjustment to retirement. Consequently, the primary function of the retirement counsellor is to promote the happiness of the client. The intention of the present investigationwas to assess the relative con...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stones, M. J., Kozma, Albert
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/60311
Description
Summary:The suggestion is made that retirement be considered the most important criterion dimension of adjustment to retirement. Consequently, the primary function of the retirement counsellor is to promote the happiness of the client. The intention of the present investigationwas to assess the relative contributions to the happiness of elderly people ofthree components of the happiness construct: namely, affect, disposition and the affect x disposition interaction. From this evaluation it was hoped to provide general guidelines forretirement counselling practices. Using scale measures of happiness and its components, three populations of elderly Newfoundland residents and a multiple regression analysisprocedure, the relative contributions of the components to happiness were found to rank: affect > interaction > disposition. Implications for counselling practices arc discussed. Nous suggérons que le fait de prendre sa retraite soit considéré comme étant le critèrele plus important dans l'adaptation à la retraite. Le premier but du conseiller des retraités est de promouvoir le bonheur de ceux-ci. L'intention de cette étude est de déterminer la contribution relative de trois des composants du bonheur, soit l'état affectif, la dispositionet l'interaction entre l'état affectif et la disposition. De cette évaluation nous espérons pouvoir donner des principes généraux à utiliser lors de l'orientation des personnes plusâgées. En nous servant de mesures graduées du bonheur et de ses composants, de trois groupes de vieillards de Terreneuve, et d'une procédure d'analyse à regressions multiples, nous avons découvert que la contribution relative des composants du bonheur s'établit comme suit: état affectif > interaction > disposition. L'étude discute des implications de ceci en orientation.