Abstract
This study aims to explore factors related to the process of how retied men from small-to-medium-sized companies build new relationships with non-family members in a community. This was a qualitative study. Participants were eleven Japanese men of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area who retired completely from small-to-medium-sized companies and had participated in activities with non-family members of the community. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews from August 2017 to March 2018. The process by which retired men construct relationships within a community were found to involve the following: the way of working creating an attitude towards the second life; to be perplexed how to adapt himself to the new community; finding means of new communications with people through trial and error; having the courage to express interest and proactively step forward to community; having someone close by boost his courage to step forward; increasing his spiritual richness through community activities; and cherishing people and opportunity that keep resident motivation. Related factors identified were: to have some interests other than one’s work experience and poor condition and feeling of burden making it difficult to continue activities. In men who retired from small-to-medium-sized company, the way of working and the level of satisfaction before retirement greatly affected life after retirement. These results also suggest that creating a new place for dialogue that can be shared in the community is important for retied men to find a comforting place in their community after retirement.
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Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging
KEYWORDS
Community, Retired Men, Small-to-Medium-Sized Company,
Digital Media
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