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European study reveals that retirees feel less lonely over time, with new social activities and personal connections helping to reduce isolation — especially for women and highly educated retirees.

Study: The impact of retirement on loneliness in Europe. Image credit: oneinchpunch / Shutterstock

A study published in the journal Scientific Reports investigates the causal effects of retirement on both short- and long-term changes in loneliness in Europe.

Background

Loneliness and social isolation contribute significantly to a person’s well-being. Chronic loneliness is associated with increased risk of physical and mental illness and all-cause mortality.

Older people worldwide are at the highest risk of loneliness. The situation is more acute in Europe due to the large population of elderly citizens. The number of elderly people is expected to increase in the coming years due to increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates.

Policy makers usually respond to these situations by postponing retirement to ensure the required funding for public pension systems. This study investigates the effects of retirement on loneliness to better inform these policies.

Retirement is a major life event for older adults that comes with a number of consequences for mental and physical health. Since retirement is associated with an abrupt end to social contact in the workplace, it is likely to increase loneliness among retirees.

Existing evidence shows that retirement significantly reduces the share of colleagues in older people’s social networks. Conversely, retirement has also been found to increase socializing with friends and family members, which in turn can reduce loneliness.

In this study, scientists used a variable framework to analyze differences in retirement eligibility rules between and within European countries to decipher the causal relationship between retirement and loneliness.

Important observations

The study analyzed data from the Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to explore differences in pension eligibility rules in an instrumental variable context. The study used data from SHARE, a longitudinal survey covering health, economic and social conditions for people aged 50+ in 13 European countries and Israel.

The effects of retirement on loneliness were analyzed in the short-term (immediately after retirement) and long-term (four to six years after retirement). The retirement eligibility rules provided exogenous variation, allowing researchers to determine causation rather than correlation.

The analysis revealed that retirement significantly reduces loneliness in the long run. However, in the short term, retirement had no statistically significant effect on loneliness.

After four to six years of retirement, there was a significant decrease in the likelihood of feeling isolated and lacking companionship. This finding indicates that both the quantity and quality of social interactions gradually improve over time after retirement.

Education is a well-known determinant of the loneliness a person may experience after retirement. In this study, individuals with a higher educational background are significantly more likely to experience improved feelings of loneliness and social isolation after adjustment to retirement.

In terms of gender implications, the study found that women are much more likely than men to experience loneliness soon after retirement. However, in the long term, a significant improvement in loneliness was observed in women. Interestingly, retirement also increased women’s feelings of lack of companionship in the short term, but this effect diminished over time.

Retirement also increased women’s feelings of lack of companionship in the short term, which eventually decreased in the long term.

A causal relationship between retirement and loneliness

In terms of possible mechanisms influencing the effect of retirement on loneliness, the study found that individuals adapt to retirement by increasing their activities at both the personal and group levels, which in turn can increase the quantity and quality of social interactions and the size of their social networks. The analysis of this particular dimension revealed that loneliness among retirees consists of aspects such as feeling isolated and lacking companionship. The long-term decline in these feelings was particularly evident for women and the highly educated.

Analysis by gender revealed no significant short- or long-term effects of retirement on loneliness among men whose partners were still working. This effect is solely due to a decrease in their social isolation over time.

Conversely, women whose partners were still working experienced loneliness immediately after retirement (short-term effect). This short-term increase in loneliness was due to a greater feeling of lack of companionship. Women whose partners have not yet retired experience larger companionship gaps shortly after retirement. This dynamic often changes if their partner eventually retires them, tempering these feelings over time.

Importance of study

The study finds that retirement significantly reduces loneliness in the long term. This may be due to the gradual improvement in feelings of social isolation and lack of companionship for retirees who engage in new activities to increase the size of their social network.

In other words, the study reveals that individuals adapt to retirement by increasing their involvement in new activities and group activities. Thus, they feel more socially connected and less lonely after several years of retirement. The study’s findings highlight the importance of policies that support social engagement after retirement, especially among women and those with lower levels of education.

The scientists believe their findings contribute to a better understanding of how retirement policies affect the well-being of older people.

Despite policymakers’ strong argument for delaying retirement to preserve the financial stability of social security systems, these findings highlight the beneficial impact of retirement on mental health for individuals who remain socially active.

Public policies that support retirement could benefit from including initiatives that encourage part-time work or volunteer opportunities for retirees and investments in age-friendly public infrastructure.

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