Success Factors of Social and Professional Adaptation of Senior Citizens in the Modern Labor Market

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200113.007How to use a DOI?

Keywords

senior citizens, labor activity, human capital, labor market, social and professional adaptation

Abstract

Elderly workers may remain in demand in the labor market. Aging is currently considered as an evolutionary process in which adaptation mechanisms are included to maintain and strengthen connectivity to the world. The article presents a study of factors contributing to the success of social and professional adaptation of senior citizens in the labor market. A sociological analysis was used with a survey of citizens at the ages from 50 to 72 (about 70% of them working). It was revealed that the role of elderly workers is gradually changing in the world of work. Nowadays there is the realization that the continuation of professional activity at this age helps to improve the financial situation, maintain social status in the family and society, gives a sense of independence and self-esteem, helps to cope with the negative manifestations of the advanced age crisis, appears as a positive component of social well-being. The study revealed that various groups of factors contribute to the continuation of a career at advanced age: socio-demographic (high level of education, vocational qualification level, professional status, fairly high income level, good health); behavioral (high self-esteem of their professional potential, motivation to continue to work, self-acceptance of their age and new social status, interest in maintaining the quality of life, desire to maintain independence and self-esteem, willingness to integrate into the professional and labor sphere, social and civic activity, willingness to study, behavioral flexibility). Not only the conditions of the social environment, but also the emotional and cognitive qualities of the elderly, determine their competitiveness in the labor market. Creating conditions for the implementation of these factors in society will help to continue successful work at advanced age and reduce negative social stereotypes regarding representatives of the third age.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tatiana Kasianova
AU  - Tatiana Radchenko
AU  - Lyudmila I. Voronina
AU  - Irina Turgel
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/16
TI  - Success Factors of Social and Professional Adaptation of Senior Citizens in the Modern Labor Market
BT  - Proceedings of the Ecological-Socio-Economic Systems: Models of Competition and Cooperation (ESES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 30
EP  - 35
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200113.007
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200113.007
ID  - Kasianova2020
ER  -