On the nature and direction of relationships between constructs and measures.

Edwards, Jeffrey R.; Bagozzi, Richard P.

doi:10.1037/1082-989x.5.2.155

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“…As noted by Bandalos and Finney (2001) and Meade and Kroustalis (2006), we cannot assess here whether parcelled items are strictly unidimensional. Furthermore, the possibility that there may be an indirect refl ective model with multiple mediating constructs associated with the parcels cannot be ruled out (Edwards & Bagozzi, 2000).…”

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Proactive personality and work performance in China: The moderating effects of emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate

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Grounded in the interactionist paradigm, this study shows that emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate constitute important moderators of the relationship between proactive personality and work performance. More specifically, the study analyzes the relationship between proactive personality and its behavioural outcomes—organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and job performance—and investigates the interactive effects of emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate. The study involves 485 Chinese airline employees including pilots, flight attendants, engineers, and service employees. Proactive personality positively predicted OCB and individual performance. Emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate moderated the relationship between proactive personality and individual performance both independently and jointly. Implications of the findings for future research are discussed. Copyright © 2009 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Proactive personality and work performance in China: The moderating effects of emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate

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“…In such a view, each behavior does not "reflect" an underlying construct (as in the conventional approach to constructs [Edwards & Bagozzi, 2000]), but instead, all behaviors add together to "form" a new construct. In the present context, such an argument would also maintain that overall job attitude first contributes to individual tendencies to engage in specific behaviors and that these behaviors then coalesce or combine (no positive covariation is necessary) to cause the general behavioral criterion.…”

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How Important are Job Attitudes? Meta-Analytic Comparisons of Integrative Behavioral Outcomes and Time Sequences

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2006

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Drawing on the compatibility principle in attitude theory, we propose that overall job attitude (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) provides increasingly powerful prediction of more integrative behavioral criteria (focal performance, contextual performance, lateness, absence, and turnover combined). The principle was sustained by a combination of meta-analysis and structural equations showing better fit of unified versus diversified models of meta-analytic correlations between those criteria. Overall job attitude strongly predicted a higher-order behavioral construct, defined as desirable contributions made to one's work role (r ‫؍‬ .59). Time-lagged data also supported this unified, attitude-engagement model.Job attitudes and job performance are perhaps the two most central and enduring sets of constructs in individual-level organizational research. Yet, a longstanding debate persists about the nature and the strength of relationships between these fundamental predictors and criteria (Austin & Villanova, 1992;Brief, 1998;Johns, 1998;Judge, Thoreson, Bono, & Patton, 2001). An elemental question remains: How important are job attitudes for predicting and understanding job performance in particular, and work role-directed behaviors in general?Authors of early qualitative reviews concluded that only weak support existed for the relationship between one principal attitude, job satisfaction, and supervisor ratings or output measures of job performance (e.g., Brayfield & Crockett, 1955). A common inference in those reviews was that job attitudes were more strongly related to absence, turnover, and other forms of work role withdrawal than they were to in-role performance (e.g., Herzberg, Mausner, Peterson, & Capwell, 1957;Vroom, 1964). Subsequent quantitative reviews also failed to show job attitudes as having strong predictive utility. One meta-analysis reported a lackluster value (ˆϭ .17) as the best estimate of the correlation between satisfaction and performance (Iaffaldano & Muchinsky, 1985). Another review showed organizational commitment bore a weaker relationship to job performance (ˆϭ .14) than to at least one withdrawal behavior, turnover (ˆϭ Ϫ.28;Mathieu & Zajac, 1990). Consequently, the pendulum of causal potency has swung away from job attitudes (at least until recently; see Judge et al. [2001]). One widely held view is that attitudes are inconsistent or epiphenomenal forces in work behavior (e.g., Locke & Latham, 1990): they explain only 3-4 percent of performance variance and have little practical importance for managers.The current article subjects that view to empirical scrutiny via comprehensive and comparative tests. In doing so, we attempt to contribute to management knowledge in five ways. First, we investigate and more fully map the individual-level criterion space (i.e., a set of work behaviors valued by organizations [Austin & Villanova, 1992]) by bringing four original meta-analyses to the literature, estimating the connections between contextual performance and (1) lateness, (2) a...

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“…The scale construct seems to be two-dimensional, although the structure is inconsistent due to the items that do not reflect the intended construct (Edwards & Bagozzi, 2000). Loadings on the two dimensions and their indicators are weak and certain items are not different from zero.…”

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Confirmatory factor analysis of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) among Italian medical students

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Objective:A steady increase in the number of patients requiring end-of-life care has been observed during the last decades. The assessment of healthcare students' attitudes toward end-of-life care is an important step in their curriculum, as it provides information about their disposition to practice palliative medicine. The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) was developed to detect such a disposition, but its psychometric properties are yet to be clearly defined.Method:A convenience sample of 608 second-year medical students participated in our study in the 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 academic years. All participants completed the FATCOD–B. The sample was randomly divided in two subsamples. In the item analysis, reliability (Cronbach's α), internal consistency (item–total correlations), and an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted using the first subsample (n= 300). Using the second subsample (n= 308), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed using the robust ML method in the Lisrel program.Results:Reliability for all items was 0.699. Item–total correlations, ranging from 0.03 to 0.39, were weak. EFA identified a two-dimensional orthogonal solution, explaining 20% of total variance. CFA upheld the two-dimensional model, but the loadings on the dimensions and their respective indicators were weak and equal to zero for certain items.Significance of Results:The findings of the present study suggest that the FATCOD–B measures a two-dimensional construct and that several items seem in need of revision. Future research oriented toward building a revised version of the scale should pay attention to item ambiguity and take particular care to distinguish among items that concern emotions and beliefs related to end-of-life care, as well as their subjects (e.g., the healthcare provider, the patient, his family).

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On the nature and direction of relationships between constructs and measures.

Cited by 1,352 publications

References 92 publications

Proactive personality and work performance in China: The moderating effects of emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate

Proactive personality and work performance in China: The moderating effects of emotional exhaustion and perceived safety climate

How Important are Job Attitudes? Meta-Analytic Comparisons of Integrative Behavioral Outcomes and Time Sequences

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) among Italian medical students

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