Psychological and socioeconomic factors influencing men and women's planning for retirement : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Turitea, New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorNoone, John Hamilton
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-28T01:46:21Z
dc.date.available2011-06-28T01:46:21Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionContent consists of peer-reviewed author manuscripts of published work: Noone, J. H., Stephens, C., & Alpass, F. M. (2009). Pre-retirement planning and well-being in later life: A prospective study. Research on Aging, 31(3), 295-317. Published version available from: http://roa.sagepub.com/content/31/3/295.abstract http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0164027508330718 Noone, J. H., Stephens, C. V. & Alpass, F. M. (2009). Do men and women still differ in their retirement planning? Testing a theoretical model of gendered pathways to retirement preparation. Research on Aging, 32(6), 715-738 Published version available from: http://roa.sagepub.com/content/32/6/715.abstract http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0164027510383531 Noone, J. H., Stephens, C., & Alpass, F. M. (2010). The Process of Retirement Planning Scale (PRePS): Development and validation. Psychological Assessment, 22 (3) 520-531 Published version available from: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pas/22/3/520/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019512en_US
dc.description.abstractConcerns for the future well-being of the Post World War II “Baby Boom” generation continue to increase as many approach retirement age. These concerns stem from the expected strain on social security and health systems when this generation leaves the paid workforce. Retirement planning has been identified by social science researchers as one way of protecting pre-retirees’ future well-being, but there are many problems within this research. For example, the long-term benefits of retirement planning are yet to be confirmed, the causal relationships between socioeconomic, psychological, and demographic variables have been under-theorised, and existing conceptualisations of retirement planning have not adequately captured the construct. This has had implications for the resultant measures and for the development of new retirement planning knowledge. A programme comprising four studies was designed to address these limitations in the retirement planning research. For Study One, longitudinal data from the American Health and Retirement Survey were used to illustrate the prospective benefits of retirement planning on well-being in later life. For Study Two, a sub-sample of 2,277 working men and women from the New Zealand Health, Work, and Retirement survey, was used to theorise and model the causal effects of SES, work involvement, and retirement perceptions on retirement planning from a gendered perspective. Study Three described the development and validation of a comprehensive and theoretically driven measure of retirement planning using a population sample of 1,449 New Zealand pre-retirees. Fifty two items were developed to assess each stage of the retirement planning process for financial, health, lifestyle, and psychosocial planning. The final study used the same data to examine the relationships between certain psychological, socioeconomic, and demographic variables and the process of retirement planning. The results indicated that these variables were inconsistently correlated with the different stages III of the planning process. These inconsistencies were theorised as barriers to completing the retirement planning process. Overall, the results of the four studies indicate that retirement planning predicts well-being and that certain groups are less prepared than others. Conceptualising retirement planning as a process has the potential to build on our current understandings by generating research questions that have not previously been considered. These new understandings will have implications for future research and for retirement policy aimed at promoting retirement planning for the next generation of retirees.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/2462
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectRetirement planningen_US
dc.subjectGender differencesen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Health and Retirement Surveyen_US
dc.subjectProcess of Retirement Planning Scale (PRePS)en_US
dc.titlePsychological and socioeconomic factors influencing men and women's planning for retirement : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Turitea, New Zealanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorNoone, John Hamilton
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
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