The relationships among three career-related variables, career commitment,
career growth opportunity, and occupational goal attainment, and planned re
tirement age were examined separately and relative to personal and work-rel
ated predictors of retirement using a sample of 172 working adults age 45 y
ears and older. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that career comm
itment and occupational goal attainment accounted for a significant portion
of variance in planned retirement age after the influence of the personal
and work-related variables was held constant. A two-way interaction between
career commitment and occupational goal attainment was not supported, nor
was a two-way interaction between career commitment and career growth oppor
tunity. Further, age did not moderate the relationships between either job
satisfaction or career commitment and planned retirement age. (C) 1999 Acad
emic Press.