PSY 308 Final: Psych Chapter 10.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Alba Agostino

Document Summary

Interest in task itself: feelings of control from within self, features that cannot be found in the exact same fashion in different types of jobs. Extrinsic factors: external rewards, feelings of control by outer conditions, features that accompany a job. Physical activity has been found to reduce mortality beneficial, if you are uninvolved before retirement, its unlikely that you will be involved after retirement high physical activity that"s leisure time = decreased mortality rates: cognitively challenging activities are good too with older adults, it"s the same thing, where you wont all of a sudden start doing cognitively challenging activities, leisure pursuits in older adulthood, leisure participation and well being. Summary: age and occupational performance is complex, three theories of retirement, role theory, continuity theory, life course perspective, effects of, and adjustment to, retirement, leisure in later adulthood offers great opportunity.