Trialing an online intervention to improve retirement planning goal setting and goal specificity

Figures & data

Figure 1 The design and sequence of the current study.

Abbreviation: TPLAI, time perspective learning and insight.

Table 1 Mean and SD scores for number of goals by condition and across time

Measure	Experimental		Control
	Time 1	Time 2	Time 1	Time 2
Number
Health (SD)	2.15 (1.35)	3.35 (1.18)**	2.77 (1.30)	2.47 (1.23)
Wealth (SD)	1.65 (1.05)	2.10 (1.07)	1.41 (0.80)	1.47 (1.13)
Social (SD)	1.60 (1.05)	2.20 (1.07)	1.65 (1.00)	2.12 (1.54)
Cognitive (SD)	2.10 (1.68)	2.65 (1.13)	1.88 (1.27)	1.59 (1.58)
Emotions (SD)	1.50 (1.00)	2.40 (1.64)*	1.71 (1.16)	1.53 (1.51)
Specificity
Health (SD)	1.61 (0.58)	2.84 (0.78)**	1.50 (0.59)	1.69 (0.62)
Wealth (SD)	1.66 (0.71)	2.59 (0.87)	1.42 (0.67)	1.72 (0.73)
Social (SD)	1.46 (0.55)	2.14 (0.73)	1.14 (0.59)	1.28 (0.93)
Cognitive (SD)	1.30 (0.78)	2.25 (0.80)**	1.33 (0.84)	1.17 (0.66)
Emotions (SD)	1.18 (0.65)	1.68 (0.75)**	1.28 (0.67)	1.03 (0.63)

Notes: All statistics in this table are accurate to two decimal places.

* P<0.05 level,

** P<0.01 level.

Table 2 Mean and SD scores for module evaluation

Evaluation	Module 1		Module 2		Module 3
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Interesting	2.50	0.74	2.73	0.63	2.73	0.83
Educational	2.45	0.86	2.68	0.72	2.64	0.85
Informative	2.27	0.63	2.59	0.80	2.68	0.84
Worthwhile	2.59	0.73	2.64	0.79	2.91	0.68

Note: All statistics in this table are accurate to two decimal places.