College Students' Perceptions of Job Demands, Recommended Retirement Ages, and Age of Optimal Performance in Selected Occupations

Autor/inn/en	Panek, Paul E.; Staats, Sara; Hiles, Amanda
Titel	College Students' Perceptions of Job Demands, Recommended Retirement Ages, and Age of Optimal Performance in Selected Occupations
Quelle	In: International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 62 (2006) 2, S.87-115 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-4150
Schlagwörter	Occupational Clusters; Retirement; College Students; Cognitive Processes; Quality of Working Life; Context Effect; Work Life Expectancy; Job Performance; Student Attitudes; Job Skills; Perceptual Motor Coordination; Sensory Integration; Occupational Information; Classification; Aging (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsgruppe; Pensionierung; Collegestudent; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Arbeitsqualität; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Schülerverhalten; Produktive Fertigkeit; Körperkoordination; Sensorische Integration; Berufsinformation; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Aging; Altern
Abstract	Two studies were conducted. In study one 100 participants rated 60 occupations on the amount of cognitive/intellectual, physical, sensory-perceptual, and perceptual-motor demands they perceived as required for successful performance in that particular occupation. Results of a cluster analysis determined four clusters of occupations on the basis of the four demands. These clusters were described as High Risk, Professions, Skilled Trades, and White Collar. Further, for each of the four demands/dimensions, the cognitive/intellectual, physical, sensory-perceptual, and perceptual motor demands were significantly different both between and within clusters. In study two, 100 participants rated the perceived retirement age, and 99 different participants rated the perceived optimal performance age for the 60 occupations employed in study one. Results indicated that age norms for perceived recommended retirement and perceived optimal performance age were differentially correlated across the four clusters of occupations. Perceived retirement age and optimal performance age varied discriminably between occupational clusters. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10