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      Tapping the Employee Perspective on the Improvement of Sustainable Employability (SE): Validation of the MAastricht Instrument for SE (MAISE-NL)

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          Background: Sustainable employability (SE) is top priority for employers. Measures based on the employee perspective of SE that would give direction to interventions to be initiated by employers currently fall short. This study aims to develop and validate an instrument that captures these issues: the MAastricht Instrument for Sustainable Employability (MAISE). Methods: MAISE items were generated from an extensive literature review and interviews with employers and employees. A questionnaire containing these items as well as proxy variables (health and vitality) and demographics was answered online by 632 employees (response rate 50.3%). Construct validity, reliability, and criterion validity were tested through Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Cronbach’s alpha, and correlational analyses. Results: The MAISE comprises 12 scales divided over five areas: (1) Meaning of SE; (2) Level of SE; (3) Factors affecting my SE; (4) Overall responsibility for SE; and (5) Responsibility for factors affecting my SE. Reliability, construct, and criterion validity were adequate to good. SE of the employees was relatively high, and SE was considered a shared responsibility of the employee and employer. Conclusions: This study showed the MAISE to be reliable and valid in various employee groups. More validation studies are needed. We recommend that employers use the MAISE as a needs assessment in order to develop SE interventions that will be readily accepted.

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                Journal
                Int J Environ Res Public Health
                Int J Environ Res Public Health
                ijerph
                International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
                MDPI
                1661-7827
                1660-4601
                25 March 2020
                April 2020
                : 17
                : 7
                : 2211
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Social Medicine, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
                [2 ]Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
                [3 ]BiCApP, Bicocca Center for Applied Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence: inge.houkes@ 123456maastrichtuniversity.nl ; Tel.: +31-43-3882878
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1697-0944
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6719-1137
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2913-542X
                Article
                ijerph-17-02211
                10.3390/ijerph17072211
                7177710
                32218382
                ae0ed25b-1b09-45e8-9145-3441cc653ae7
                © 2020 by the authors.

                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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                : 21 February 2020
                : 22 March 2020
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                Public health
                vitality,employees,well-being,questionnaire,psychometric properties,sustainable employability

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