Employees’ Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to Increasing Statutory Retirement Ages

Table 1

Employees’ responses to increasing statutory retirement ages ().

	Not at all	To a small extent	To a moderate extent	To a large extent
Emotional
Worried about physical capabilities	25%	31%	24%	20%
Worried about mental capabilities	26%	30%	27%	17%
Angry	29%	24%	19%	28%
Cognitive
Thinking about a different job in the last phase of career	60%	21%	13%	6%
How to keep meeting requirements of current job	35%	33%	24%	8%
How to keep work pleasurable	32%	32%	27%	9%
Behavioral
Keep up-to-date with new developments in job	13%	23%	43%	22%
Maintaining a healthy work-life balance	9%	22%	43%	26%
Pay more attention to healthy living and working	11%	28%	45%	16%