A. This is not the best answer. While several levels of environmental influence impact retirees, Bronfenbrenner’s theory does not support the predominant explanations in this section.
B. This is not the best answer. Normative and nonnormative influences may explain timing of retirement, but not choice of time use during retirement.
C. This is not the best answer. The meaning of age is influenced by how one acts or feels, and certainly has an impact on retirement behavior, but it does not completely explain time use choices.
D. This not the best answer. The primary interests of the retiree age group might be a good example if there were a great deal of consistency in time use by retirees.
E. This is the best answer. The combined influence of lifelong experience, history and context, multidimensional and multidirectional, and pliable aspect of development best explain how older adults choose to use their time, as described in Chapter 8.