A mental model of remaining lifetime: motivating late-career adjustment and productivity

在全球劳动力老龄化的情况下，激励职业生涯后期的工人保持就业能力和最佳表现，同时规划他们向退休的过渡，这一点越来越重要。这项纵向研究试图用一个创新的理论框架来解释职业生涯后期的动机，该框架在个人剩余寿命的心理模型中捕捉个人的未来自我和主观预期寿命。该项目的主要重点是澳大利亚迅速增长的老年工人群体，但该框架也评估了其对夫妇决策和精英运动员独特的职业生涯后期背景的普遍性。其结果将促进在职业生涯后期和退休过渡期间的调整。

Motivating late-career workers to maintain employability and peak performance while simultaneously planning their transition to retirement has growing significance in the face of global workforce aging. This longitudinal research seeks to explain late-career motivation using an innovative theoretical framework that captures individuals’ future selves and their subjective life expectancy within a personal mental model of remaining lifetime. The projects main focus is on Australia’s burgeoning cohort of older workers, but the framework is also assessed for its generalisability to couples’ decision-making and to the unique late-career context of elite athletes. Outcomes will promote adjustment during the late-career and retirement transition periods.