How Retirement Changes Your Identity

Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School, is
approaching her own retirement by researching how ending your work
career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological
shifts take place leading up to, and during, retirement. That holds
especially true for workers who identify strongly with their job
and organization. Amabile and her fellow researchers have
identified two main processes that retirees go through: life
restructuring and identity bridging.