Better Understanding the Workers' Retirement Decision Attitudes: Development and Validation of a New Measure.
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SUBMITTER: Fouquereau E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6290337 | biostudies-literature | 2018
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Better Understanding the Workers' Retirement Decision Attitudes: Development and Validation of a New Measure.
Fouquereau Evelyne E Bosselut Grégoire G Chevalier Séverine S Coillot Hélène H Demulier Virginie V Becker Caroline C Gillet Nicolas N
Frontiers in psychology 20181204
The aim of the present research was to develop a measure that could be used in future research for in-depth study of the psychological management of retirement. We report the results of six studies involving 1,898 French workers designed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a new instrument named the Workers' Retirement Motivations Inventory (WRMI) using the push pull anti-push anti-pull model. The items were constructed based on a review of the relevant psychological literature ...[more]
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