An index of job satisfaction.

AH Brayfield, HF Rothe�- Journal of applied psychology, 1951 - psycnet.apa.org
AH Brayfield, HF Rothe
Journal of applied psychology, 1951psycnet.apa.org
An attitude scale to give an index of job satisfaction was constructed by a combination of
Thurstone and Likert scaling methods. A corrected odd-even reliability coefficient of. 87 was
computed from scores obtained from a sample of 231 female office employees. Validity was
investigated by comparing job satisfaction scores of two groups:(1) 40 students who had
personnel jobs, and (2) 51 persons who did not. The mean for the personnel group was
76.9, and for the Non-Personnel group was 65.4. Correlation with the Hoppock Job�…
Abstract
An attitude scale to give an index of job satisfaction was constructed by a combination of Thurstone and Likert scaling methods. A corrected odd-even reliability coefficient of. 87 was computed from scores obtained from a sample of 231 female office employees. Validity was investigated by comparing job satisfaction scores of two groups:(1) 40 students who had personnel jobs, and (2) 51 persons who did not. The mean for the personnel group was 76.9, and for the Non-Personnel group was 65.4. Correlation with the Hoppock Job Satisfaction Blank was r=. 92.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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