Readiness to master age-related changes and biographical reflection in the context of late age and professional employment

The relevance of studying the readiness to master age-temporal changes and biographical reflection as components of the personal mobility of older people is due to the insufficient representation of theoretical models and empirical evidence on the relationship between age and professional development at a later age, as well as the complex determinants of this process. The aim of the study is to describe the nature of the relationship between the readiness to master the age and the biographical reflection of working and non-working pensioners, what will make it possible to differentiate the age and professional contexts of development. Empirical research has shown that working older people are more likely to analyze their own life events and other people’s life patterns. At the same time, the readiness to master the age of working and non-working pensioners practically does not differ. The components of readiness (motivational and cognitive) to master age-temporal changes have a different character of conjugation with the parameters of biographical reflection. The results showed a greater dependence of the studied indicators on the age context than on professional employment.