How do Black Caribbean-born Women Living in the UK Construct Their Experience of Retirement? A Discursive Psychology Analysis

ABSTRACT

The present research explores Caribbean-born women’s constructions of retirement. Eight participants (self-identified as retired) were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling. Data were obtained using individual semi-structured interviews and analyzed using discursive psychology. Findings center around a discussion of the negotiating difference discourses. This construction consists of two sub-creations: work and retirement, and home. Both creations present participants engaging in a process of negotiation to merge the life they once knew with their retirement experience. Implications for participants and the construction of retirement are considered, and suggestions put forward for future research and for clinicians working with the studied population.

KEYWORDS:

• Caribbean women
• black psychology
• retirement
• intersectionality
• discursive psychology

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.