IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION INFORMATION ON RETIREMENT PLANNING INTENTION AND RETIREMENT CONCEPTUALIZATION

• Authors: Bačová Viera , Kohút Michal , Halama Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The research aim was to find out whether providing information on psychological preparation would produce changes in pre-retirees retirement planning intentions and advance retirement concepts. In the experiment, we divided the pre-retirees (N = 567, mean age of 54.91, SD = 3.55 years, working full-time) into four groups (with and without pre-test, with and without the information provided). There were no differences between the pre-test and post-test conditions. However, the results showed that participants acknowledged the need to prepare for retirement even before the intervention. The participants also rated themselves as psychologically prepared for retirement. The results also indicated which pre-retirees could benefit from psychological preparation: those who believe they would have a disadvantageous and unfavourable retirement transition. The next group is the ones who tend to conceptualize their retirement as an imposed disruption as they also perceive their psychological resources for a successful transition as insufficient.

Keywords

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RETIREMENT; PRE-RETIREES; CONCEPTUALIZATION

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 133-153

Contributors

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Bačová Viera

• Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3661-208X

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Kohút Michal

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4544-1331

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Halama Peter

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-4845

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2023.02.871