Retirement Time Salience

What it measures

Three items measure how much a person is actively thinking about and concerned with the time they have remaining before retirement. Romero, Craig, and Kumar (2019) used the scale in a pretest before Study 2 with 115 participants. The source of the scale was not identified.

Response format

7-point (1=not at all, 7=very much)

Scale items

• concerned about the time you have until retirement?
• thinking about the time you have until retirement?
• considering the time you have until retirement?

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Validity was not discussed. The scale is specific to retirement-relevant temporal concerns and may be useful as a manipulation check or individual difference measure in intertemporal choice research.

Citation

Romero, M., Craig, A. W., & Kumar, A. (2019). Mapping time: How the spatial representation of time influences intertemporal choices. Journal of Marketing Research, 56(4), 620–636.

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