Representações sociais da aposentadoria e intenção de continuar trabalhando

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the social representation of public workers' retirement and identify the most emphasized aspects, as well as its implications, for the retirement decision process. This study is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, with 283 already retired public workers, or close to retirement (less than 05 years). Collected data were divided into two corpora: retirement and expectations. The lexical analysis was carried out according to descending hierarchical classification technique, with the aid of a textual analysis software. The results have shown that there were patterns of meaning of retirement among the participants, where retirement intention is linked to the idea of enjoying free time and better quality of life, while postponing of retirement is associated with being active at work and lacking replacement activities, as well as a strategy against idleness.