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  • Occupational Health Psychology
  • Workforce Wellbeing Research
  • Psychometrics in Occupational Settings

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  • Assessing occupational health and work ability requires robust measurement strategies to capture individual fluctuations over time.
  • Understanding the interplay between work demands, personal factors, and wellbeing is crucial for maintaining employee capacity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate within-person fluctuations in occupational health, work ability, and wellbeing using novel measurement strategies.
  • To examine the absolute agreement of weekly task-specific work ability measurements and their relationships with wellbeing, work demands, and personal factors over time.

Main Methods:

  • Forty-eight Dutch academic researchers provided weekly data over 12 consecutive weeks.
  • Task-specific work ability, wellbeing indicators, and work demands were measured weekly.
  • Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC) assessed absolute agreement; multilevel models analyzed predictor relationships.

Main Results:

  • Absolute agreement for task-specific work ability generally did not reach the optimal ICC > 0.90 threshold, except for 'ability to conduct data analyses' (ICC=0.95).
  • Leisure time physical activity, relational, and social wellbeing were associated with average task-specific work ability.
  • Weekly physical demands, personal wellbeing, and general wellbeing were linked to weekly fluctuations in work ability.

Conclusions:

  • Repeated assessments demonstrate significant intra-individual variability in task-specific work ability, underscoring the necessity of multiple measurements.
  • Identifying time-invariant and time-varying predictors offers insights into the dynamic nature of work ability and its fluctuations.