Abstract
A mail questionnaire survey was conducted to examine relationships between the nature and the kind of past work experiences and the present quality of life perceived by the retirees from one large private corporation located in the Tokyo area. Out of 457 retired managers listed, 302 (66.1%) provided usable data for the present study. The respondents' average age was found to be 63.3, and average years after retirement 8.0.
A set of measures was developed to evaluate the quality of life after retirement, namely a Life Satisfaction Scale, a Degree of Contribution Scale, and a Sense of Life Meaningfulness Scale. Results of analyses indicated that past experiences of internal control on the job, intrinsic job satisfaction and organizat ional commitment (in terms of Porter's OCS) significantly related to a set of QL measures, after controlling for age, income, and housing conditions. These findings were discussed regarding the corporate personnel policies which are generally sugested for reconsideration at the starting stage of the aging society in Japan toward the years in 2000s.
