Discriminant validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity

Abstract

The discriminant validity of measures used to assess job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity was empirically evaluated using data collected from a sample of 550 employees of a 327‐bed Veterans Administration Medical Center. Confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL as the estimation technique was used to test the hypothesized three‐factor configuration. Results of this test and other data supported the discriminant validity of the three constructs.

Are All My Volunteers Here to Help Out? Clustering Event Volunteers by Their Motivations

“…The SEVMS scale items (Farrell et al, 1998) were assessed using a 7-point Likert scale (1 = not at all important to me to 7 = extremely important to me). Satisfaction was measured using a six-item job satisfaction scale, a shortened version of Brayfield and Rothe's (1951) scale, which has demonstrated high levels of reliability and validity (Agho, Price, & Mueller, 1992;Iverson, 1996;Price & Mueller, 1986) and has also been factor analyzed and found to represent a unidimensional factor of overall job satisfaction (Price & Mueller, 1986). Some minor modifications were made to the scale items to account for the instrument developed in the paid work domain being adapted for use with volunteers (e.g., altering the wording of "job" to "volunteer role").…”

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“…The measurement items used in this study and the original source where they were adapted from are discussed in this section. The measurement items for job satisfaction are derived from ( (Agho, Price, & Mueller, 1992)) and Spector (1994) Table 3.3 shows the list of all the study variables and number of items for this paper. The Likert scale will be used.…”