As mentioned in Section 3.1, the analyzed subsample consisted of 178 retired respondents, of whom 39.3% were male (see
Table 2). The sample contained almost an equal proportion of respondents between 55 and 64 years of age (47.7%) and 65
and 75 years of age (46.1%), while 6.2% were 54 years old or younger (M = 63.9 years, SD = 6.45).