Successfully adjusting to retirement, in terms of achieving psychological comfort with one's retirement life, represents a major challenge for older workers. Although current literature emphasizes that it may depend on the availability and fluctuation of specific resources, little is known about which types and how resources allow recent retirees to adjust to retirement. Drawing on the resource-based dynamic model for retirement adjustment and conservation of resources theory, the current study aims to elaborate theory on resources' types, relative importance and combinations in caravans, and the processes through which they shape successful retirement adjustment. In a consensual qualitative research using abductive reasoning with recent retirees aged 66–69, we find four major resource types. We show that their importance varies (from the most important to the least: social interactions, life conditions, time management and individuality) and that they travel in caravans within a resource type. We further propose a model highlighting how these resources shape successful retirement adjustment through resources signal, conservation and acquisition processes. Overall, our findings offer theoretical and empirical contributions to the resource perspective on retirement adjustment and to conservation of resources theory's understanding of resources' categorization, processes and caravans.

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快乐地退休了！一项一致的定性研究，阐述成功退休调整的资源分类、流程和大篷车理论

成功地适应退休，即在退休生活中获得心理安慰，是老年工人面临的一项重大挑战。尽管当前的文献强调这可能取决于特定资源的可用性和波动，但对于哪些类型以及资源如何允许最近退休人员适应退休生活却知之甚少。借鉴基于资源的退休调整动态模型和资源保护理论，本研究旨在阐述关于大篷车中的资源类型、相对重要性和组合的理论，以及它们塑造成功退休调整的过程。在对 66-69 岁最近退休人员进行的一项使用溯因推理的一致定性研究中，我们发现了四种主要资源类型。我们表明它们的重要性各不相同（从最重要到最不重要：社交互动、生活条件、时间管理和个性），并且它们在资源类型内以商队形式旅行。我们进一步提出了一个模型，强调这些资源如何通过资源信号、保护和获取过程来塑造成功的退休调整。总体而言，我们的研究结果为退休调整的资源视角以及资源保护理论对资源分类、过程和大篷车的理解提供了理论和实证贡献。