Goal Clarity and Financial Planning Activities as Determinants of Retirement Savings Contributions

Autor/inn/en	Stawski, Robert S.; Hershey, Douglas A.; Jacobs-Lawson, Joy M.
Titel	Goal Clarity and Financial Planning Activities as Determinants of Retirement Savings Contributions
Quelle	In: International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 64 (2007) 1, S.13-32 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-4150
Schlagwörter	Goal Orientation; Retirement; Path Analysis; Financial Services; Money Management; Adults; Income; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Pensionierung; Pfadanalyse; Einkommen; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Retirement counselors, financial service professionals, and retirement intervention specialists routinely emphasize the importance of developing clear goals for the future; however, few empirical studies have focused on the benefits of retirement goal setting. In the present study, the extent to which goal clarity and financial planning activities predict retirement savings practices was examined among 100 working adults. Path analysis techniques were used to test two competing models, both of which were designed to predict savings contributions. Findings provide support for the model in which retirement goal clarity is a significant predictor of planning practices, and planning, in turn, predicts savings tendencies. Two demographic variables--income and age--were also revealed to be important elements of the model, with income accounting for roughly half of the explained variance in savings contributions. The results of this study have implications for the development of age-based models of planning, as well as implications for retirement counselors and financial planners who advise workers on long-term saving strategies. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10