Vitality is the feeling of physical and mental aliveness. Vitality benefits individual, organizational and societal well-being. However, we know much less about the dynamics in the levels of vitality and its’ precursors. This study investigates the effects of retirement on vitality and how this effect differs between manual and non-manual workers and by baseline levels of vitality. We used two waves of the NIDI Pension Panel Survey, collected in the Netherlands in 2015 and 2018. Data from 4156 older workers (N = 4156), of whom 1934 (46.5%) retired between waves, were analysed. Vitality is assessed in three ways, as: (1) a composite measure of vitality, and its subcomponents (2) energy and (3) fatigue. Conditional Change OLS Regression models demonstrated that retirement is associated with improved vitality and decreased fatigue. Older workers who retire from manual work at wave 1 experienced the largest gains in vitality and highest declines in fatigue at wave 2, compared to those who remained employed. Retirement was more advantageous for older workers who experienced poor vitality and high fatigue at wave 1. No such effects were found for energy. Older workers in manual work, those experiencing low vitality and high fatigue at wave 1, may benefit most from early retirement. Since opportunities for early retirement are highly restrictive, it is essential to provide these groups of workers with effective work accommodations and interventions that may not only improve their vitality and quality of working life, but also extend their participation in the labour market.

活力是身体和精神活力的感觉。活力有益于个人、组织和社会福祉。然而，我们对活力水平及其前兆的动态知之甚少。这项研究调查了退休对活力的影响，以及这种影响在体力劳动者和非体力劳动者之间以及活力的基线水平之间有何不同。我们使用了 2015 年和 2018 年在荷兰收集的两波 NIDI 养老金小组调查。 来自 4156 名老年工人的数据 ( N = 4156)，其中 1934 (46.5%) 在波浪之间退休，进行了分析。活力以三种方式进行评估，如：(1) 活力及其子成分的综合衡量标准 (2) 能量和 (3) 疲劳。条件变化 OLS 回归模型表明，退休与提高活力和减少疲劳有关。与继续工作的人相比，在第 1 波中从体力工作退休的老年工人在第 2 波中的活力增长最大，疲劳下降最快。退休对于在第 1 波体验到活力差和高度疲劳的老年工人更有利。没有发现这种影响对能量的影响。从事体力劳动的老年工人，在第一波中经历低活力和高疲劳的人，可能从提前退休中受益最大。由于提前退休的机会非常有限，