Impact of a personal goals management program on the subjective well-being of young retirees |
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| Affiliation: | 1. ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies, Institute of Education, University of London, London WC1H 0AL, UK;2. Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK;3. Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK;4. Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London SW15 5PU, UK;5. BI Norwegian Business School, Nydalsveien 37, 0484 Oslo, Norway;1. Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Theresienstrasse 41, 80333 München, Germany;2. Géosciences-Rennes, UMR 6118, CNRS, Université Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France;3. TRACES, UMR 5608, CNRS, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, Maison de la Recherche, 5 allée Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France |
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| Abstract: | A personal goal-based intervention was offered to retired people aged 50 to 65 years with the objective of increasing their subjective well-being. The program aimed to help the participants set, plan, and pursue their personal goals through a learning process based on literature on goal intervention. At the end of the program, the experimental group (N = 117) had improved significantly more than the control group (N = 177) on the majority of the goal and subjective well-being indicators, and this gain was maintained six months later. The enhanced well-being observed in the participants after the intervention stemmed from the mediating effect of the goals and was thus due to the greater focus on goals. Some ideas to make the program more effective are discussed. |
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