Retirement can be a turbulent time of life in which people must navigate changes in their identity from ending a career and beginning a new phase of life. However, retirement can also provide opportunities for growth or self-expansion. We examined the benefits of partner support for self-expansion by using longitudinal evidence (at 3 time points) in a sample of 73 couples. We tested a theoretical model proposing that partner support for self-expansion at Time 1 would predict retirement satisfaction and overall health 1 year later and that these effects would be mediated by self-expansion at 6 months. Using structural equation modeling, we found significant indirect effects for both retirement satisfaction and health, supporting all hypotheses. These results suggest that during retirement, partners play an important role in encouraging opportunities for growth as an investment toward future retirement satisfaction and health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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成长为退休：伴侣支持对自我扩张的重要性的纵向证据。

退休可能是生活中的一个动荡时期，在此期间，人们必须应对从结束职业生涯到开始新生活阶段的身份变化。然而，退休也可以提供成长或自我扩张的机会。我们通过在 73 对夫妇的样本中使用纵向证据（在 3 个时间点）检查了伴侣支持对自我扩张的好处。我们测试了一个理论模型，该模型提出在时间 1 时伴侣对自我扩张的支持可以预测 1 年后的退休满意度和整体健康状况，并且这些影响将通过 6 个月的自我扩张来调节。使用结构方程模型，我们发现对退休满意度和健康都有显着的间接影响，支持所有假设。这些结果表明，在退休期间，作为对未来退休满意度和健康的投资，合作伙伴在鼓励增长机会方面发挥着重要作用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。