Measuring sustainable employability: psychometric properties of the capability set for work questionnaire

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Descriptive statistics and Cronbach’s alpha of the scales. [SD = standard deviation]

Variables	Included in capability set (in %) ^a	Mean	SD^b	Corrected item-total correlation	Cronbach’s α
Capability set score ^c (average of the seven work values)		3.53	0.54
Use of knowledge and skills	68	3.94	0.67
Development of knowledge and skills	40	3.48	0.72
Involvement in important decisions	34	3.29	0.81
Building and maintaining meaningful contacts	57	3.71	0.75
Setting your own goals	37	3.39	0.78
Having a good income	37	3.43	0.74
Contributing to something valuable	43	3.47	0.82
Person-job fit		3.66	0.76	0.73–0.82	0.92
Strengths use		4.24	1.01	0.79–0.85	0.94
Opportunity to craft		3.34	0.73	0.65–0.71	0.87
Work engagement (Time 2)		3.69	0.70	0.62–0.74	0.81
Work ability (Time 2)		4.26	0.65	0.69	0.82
Task performance (Time 2)		3.73	0.63	0.74–0.81	0.88
Job satisfaction (Time 2) ^c		5.57	1.21

^a An individual work value aspect is considered part of the capability set if the important (A), enablement (B), and ability (C) scores are greater than 3
^b SD standard deviation
^c Cronbach’s alpha calculations for the CSWQ and job satisfaction were not run since the former is not a scale and the latter is measured with an overall item

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