Evaluation of determinants of retirement satisfaction among workers and retired people

The objective was to study ordinary people's judgments, through the use of external indices, of the expected degree of retirement satisfaction and to characterize the cognitive process involved in making these judgments. The method used was an application of Integration Information Theory (IM. The t otal sample was formed of two subsamples of 50 workers and 53 recently reti red people. The main results showed that the overall degree of retirement s atisfaction and the factors taken into account in the judgment process are surprisingly similar in both groups. There was also no fundamental differen ce in integration patterns between workers and retirees. All participants u sed an additive rule.