Abstract
The aging of the world’s population has become a grand societal challenge, which requires an urgent response from researchers, professionals, and the wider society. One way to respond to this challenge is by supporting individuals in sustaining longer and healthier working lives, that is, age successfully. Although the advantages of promoting and enabling successful aging at work have been widely acknowledged, no single instrument for measuring this construct has been published so far. We develop and test in three consecutive samples a two-dimensional successful aging at work scale. This novel instrument is rooted conceptually in the most recent theoretical developments and is applicable to a variety of work settings and groups of workers. It can be used by both employees and employers for the purposes of individual and organizational development. We also propose directions for future research.
Highlights
In a systematic way, Zacher, Kooij, and Beier (2018) outlined the factors contributing to active aging at work (AAW), which is a construct that somewhat overlaps with
The idea of understanding AAW/ successful aging at work (SAW) in relation to both internal and external factors is in line with the ongoing criticism that being focused mostly on the process of intra-individual development, lifespan theories overall are likely to neglect the effects of the context on the Corresponding author: Stanimira Taneva University of Nottingham, Room B42, Law & Social Sciences Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom Email: Stanimira.Taneva@nottingham.ac.uk
Scale Development Based on the pilot data, we eliminated items with low
Summary
In a systematic way, Zacher, Kooij, and Beier (2018) outlined the factors contributing to active aging at work (AAW), which is a construct that somewhat overlaps with. Multilevel factors (individual, team, organizational, and wider societal) contribute to AAW/SAW (see Kooij, Zacher, Wang, & Heckhausen, 2019). The idea of understanding AAW/ SAW in relation to both internal (e.g., person) and external (e.g., environmental) factors is in line with the ongoing criticism that being focused mostly on the process of intra-individual development, lifespan theories overall are likely to neglect the effects of the context on the. Given the increasing interest in AAW/SAW from a contemporary lifespan perspective (Zacher et al, 2018), it is surprising that no measure of this construct has been developed yet. As with Zacher (2015a), we understand SAW as a process of multidimensional intra-individual growth, which is age related, associated with various subjective and objective criteria, and may be facilitated (or constrained) by multilevel factors. We test the psychometric properties of the new measure in three consecutive MTurk samples and suggest directions for future research
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