Social Representations of Retirement: Cross-Cultural Comparison

Chuykova T.S.
PhD in Psychology, associate professor at the Chair of Applied Psychology and Deviantology, M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University
e-mail: cts1004@bspu.ru

Polkina T.M.
PhD student at the Psychology Department, Bashkir State Pedagogical University of Ufa named after M. Akmullah

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The paper describes the outcomes of a research on social representations of retirement within three population categories: students, working adults and retired persons. The research employed a technique based on free association experiment. The results obtained on were then compared to the similar data obtained in a study with French subjects. This comparison revealed significant differences in social representations not only in the two ethnic samples, but in the subsamples of Russian subjects as well.

Keywords: social representations, free association task, cross-cultural comparison, aging, retirement

Column: Experimental Research

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Chuykova T.S., Polkina T.M. Social Representations of Retirement: Cross-Cultural Comparison. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2012. Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 89–102. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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