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Voluntary environmental relocation in the later years of life necessitates the reestablishment of a sense of self in relation to the new surroundings as a requisite to satisfactory adjustment and the maintenance of morale. A sample of 223 relocators to Israel were surveyed, the focus being upon the significance of organizational (formal) and intimate, non-obligatory (informal) activity involvements for relocation adjustment. Of the two activity clusters, only involvement in formal activities was found to be significantly correlated with an index of adjustment.
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Prager, E.H. Organizational involvement as a correlate of relocation adjustment amongst elderly movers to Israel. J Cross-Cultural Gerontol 1, 91–102 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116020
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