Compared men who claimed that retirement improved their health (N=114) with men who claimed no effect (N=149). Results showed that retrospective claims of good effects were not corroborated by a corresponding longitudinal, pre- to post-retirement improvement in self-reported health except among men whose retirement reduced prior job strain.…

To clarify the relationship between planned and preferred age for retirement, concurrent trends in the measures for a sample of workers were compared. Workers generally preferred to retire sooner than they planned to, and preferences were revised over time, tending to converge with the planned age for withdrawal from work. (Author)