อิทธิพลของศักยภาพในการทำงาน การสนับสนุนทางสังคม พฤติกรรมการดูแลตนเอง และการเห็นคุณค่าแห่งตนที่มีผลต่อความพร้อมในการทำงานหลังเกษียณของผู้สูงอายุในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร

The purposes of this research were 1) to examine the congruence of structural equation model of readiness to work of retired elderly with empirical data, and 2) to study the direct effect, indirect effect and total effect antecedents on readiness to work of retired elderly. The data were collected from five hundred elders by questionnaire. The data was analyzed in term of structural equation modeling. The results showed as following: the structural equation modeling of readiness to work of retired elderly was congruent with the empirical data (x2 = 646.978, df = 266, p = 0.000, x2/df = 2.432, GFI = 0.903, TLI = 0.925, CFI = 0.933, RMSEA = 0.054, Critical N = 236); work potentiality, social support, self care behaviors and self esteem accounted for the variance of readiness to work of retired elderly by 71 percent. Self care behaviors, self esteem and work potentiality had direct effect on readiness to work of retired elderly respectively. In addition, social support, self care behaviors and work potentiality had indirect effect on readiness to work of retired elderly respectively.