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

Table 2

Descriptive statistics ().

	Mean or %	SD	Factor loadings
Dependent variables
Emotional
Are you worried about being physically able to do so?	2.38	1.06	0.88
Are you worried about being mentally able to do so?	2.35	1.05	0.87
Are you angry?	2.45	1.18	0.60
Cognitive
Do you think about taking a different job for the last phase of your career?	1.65	0.93	0.41
Do you think about how you can keep meeting the requirements for your current job?	2.05	0.95	0.78
Do you think about how to keep your work pleasurable?	2.13	0.97	0.78
Behavioral
Do you keep up to date with new developments in your current work?	2.75	0.94	0.43
Do you safeguard your work-life balance?	2.87	0.91	0.64
Do you pay more attention to healthy living and working?	2.66	0.88	0.76
Independent variables
Labor market
Experienced age discrimination	15.39%
Organizational
Accessibility of accommodative HR practices	2.45	0.59
Social norms
Continuing to work after statutory retirement age	3.00	0.87
Making a career switch within a year	3.27	0.87
Taking early retirement	3.62	0.78
Personal factors
Age	52.68	7.21
Sex
Male	50.85%
Female	49.14%
Education
Low	18.36%
Medium	41.15%
High	40.49%
Net monthly income (€1000)	2.18	0.98
Health	3.15	0.69
Marital status
Never married	21.76%
Married	62.69%
Divorced	13.92%
Widowed	1.63%