PubData Leuphana Repository: Work Ability: Assessment and Association with Self-Determination in the Transition to Retirement and Later Life Satisfaction

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Resource type	Dissertation
Title(s)	Work Ability: Assessment and Association with Self-Determination in the Transition to Retirement and Later Life Satisfaction
Alternative title(s)	Arbeitsfähigkeit: Erfassung und Zusammenhang mit Selbstbestimmung beim Übergang in den Ruhestand und späterer Lebenszufriedenheit
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-613
Handle	20.500.14123/648
Creator	Voltmer, Jan-Bennet 0000-0002-9103-3013 1231941286
Referee	Deller, Jürgen 0000-0001-6735-950X 121986861 Lehr, Dirk 0000-0002-5560-3605 133912663 James, Jacquelyn
Advisor	Deller, Jürgen 0000-0001-6735-950X 121986861
Abstract	This dissertation investigates work ability as a concept that supports workers, employers, and societies in the extension of working lives, and how work ability is related to the level of self-determination in the transition to retirement, and ultimately life satisfaction. In the first study of this dissertation, the Work Ability Survey-R (WAS-R) was translated from English into German and then evaluated regarding its psychometric properties and construct validity. The WAS-R operationalizes work ability as the interplay of personal and organizational resources and thus allows companies to derive targeted interventions to maintain work ability. In the second study, the WAS-R was examined together with the questionnaire Work-Related Behavior and Experience Pattern (Arbeitsbezogenes Verhaltens- und Erlebensmuster, AVEM) regarding its construct validity. A striking feature of this study was the high number of participants with the answering pattern indicating low work-related ambitions and protection. Persons with this pattern are in danger of entering the risk pattern for burnout in the future. The findings support the validity of the WAS-R. In the third contribution, two studies examined the experience of control (i.e., autonomy) in the transition to retirement as a mediator between previous work ability, health, and financial well-being, and later life satisfaction in retirement. Control was found to partially mediate the relationship between work ability and later life satisfaction. Different mechanisms on later life satisfaction of work ability and health, and the subjective and objective financial situation were found. This dissertation contributes to research on and practice with aging workers in two ways: (1) The German translation of the WAS-R is presented as a useful instrument for measuring work ability, assessing individual and organizational aspects and therefore enabling employers to make targeted interventions to maintain and improve work ability, and eventually enable control during later work life, the retirement transition and even old age. (2) This dissertation corroborates the importance of good work ability and health, even in old age, as well as control in these phases of life. Work ability is indirectly related to life satisfaction in the long period of retirement, mediated by a sense of control in the transition to retirement. This emphasizes the importance of the need for control as postulated by the SDT also in the transition to retirement.
Language	English
DDC	331 :: Arbeitsökonomie
Date of defense	2020-07-07
Year of publication in PubData	2020
Publishing type	First publication
Date issued	2020-08-11
Creation context	Research
Faculty / department	Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Institut für Management und Organisation (IMO)
Alternative Idenfier(s)	urn:nbn:de:gbv:luen4-opus4-10474
Notes	Die kumulative Dissertation enthält drei Beiträge.
Date of Availability	2024-05-30T13:39:44Z
Archiving Facility	Medien- und Informationszentrum (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg 02w2y2t16)
Granting Institution	Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Published by	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg