Age and Job Fit: The Relationship Between Demands-Ability Fit and Retirement and Health

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• Personal Author:
  Beier ME ; Fisher, Gwenith G. ; Torres WJ ; Wallace LE
• Description:
  Understanding the antecedents of retirement and health is increasingly important given the proportion of older adults in the global workforce. The current study examines the relationship between the demands-ability facet of person-job fit and retirement status and health. The sample consists of older workers and retired adults (N = 383) from the Study of Cognition and Aging in the U.S.A. (a national study of age and cognitive abilities). Objective demands-ability fit was operationalized as the fit between a person's cognitive abilities assessed with an extensive battery of reasoning (fluid abilities) and knowledge (crystallized abilities) and relevant job demands taken from the Occupational Information Network. Results indicated that as the congruence between workers' reasoning abilities and job demands increased, workers reported fewer chronic health conditions. When reasoning abilities required by a job exceeded worker abilities, workers reported more health conditions and were more likely to be retired versus working. Fewer health conditions were reported when reasoning abilities exceeded reasoning job demands. Congruence for knowledge abilities and demands fit was significant only at medium levels of knowledge abilities and demands. Overall, these results suggest that demands-ability fit is relevant to the experience of work in older age. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Age Groups Aging Workforce Author Keywords: Aging Cognitive Abilities Health Health Effects Humans Job Demands Physiological Function Physiology Psychological Effects Psychology Retirement Sampling Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  1076-8998
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 6 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  227-243
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056810
• Citation:
  J Occup Health Psychol 2020 Aug; 25(4):227-243
• Contact Point Address:
  Margaret E. Beier, Department of Psychological Sciences, MS-25, Rice University, 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005
• Email:
  beier@rice.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:eb0a14844f59bc33386b72fb69809980160c58d3a6ddcdb56a94a6cc09833b03421dbc66e9853e1c8c23dfcd5cc78e701fdac64876a2f0ba2c6c06484e3a7363
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214324/cdc_214324_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.08 MB ]