Work, identity, and health
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Personal introductionHaving free-lanced as a public health physician for over a decade, with the inevitable variation in both the avaiIability and type of work, 'retirement' is, perhaps, a vaguer concept than for those with conventional full time jobs.In my middle sixties, I was drifting towards retirement, thinking that I should soon refuse any new work, when an incident occurred quite unconnected with work.Many have experienced being treated by someone with utter contempt, but a dramatic confrontation in which I was made to feel a worthless 'nothing' forced me to reflect on my immediate future, my social status in retirement, and the importance of work.I abandoned thoughts of full retirement and took up new research commitments, having concluded that, for me, it was important to be a 'something', whatever that 'something' was.
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Work has long been considered a principal source of identity to many, and a majority of American workers get a sense of self-identity from their job.
“Since work has long been considered a principal source of identity to many (Fryers, 2006), and that a majority of American workers get a sense of selfidentity from their job (Gallup, 2014)”
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- Authors
- Fryers
- Venue
- Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 12
- ISSN
- 1745-0179 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1501011
- OpenAlex
- W1570701991
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 2.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Sciences › Demography › Education and Work Dynamics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Keywords
- retirement, occupational identity, health, public health physicians, social status, self-worth
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