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Cross‐cultural development of an abridged job insecurity measure
Author(s) -
Lee Cynthia,
Bobko Philip,
Ashford Susan,
Chen Zhen Xiong,
Ren Xiaopeng
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.513
Subject(s) - scale (ratio) , job insecurity , psychology , construct (python library) , social psychology , measure (data warehouse) , computer science , geography , data mining , cartography , electrical engineering , engineering , sense (electronics) , programming language
Using four samples from the United States and China, we developed two theoretically based abridged job insecurity (JI) scales to address researcher concerns with the length of the original 57‐item scale. These two scales contained all the components of the scale originally developed and validated by Ashford et al., 1989. Our abridged scale has 37 items (18 items for job features, 16 items for total job, and 3 items for powerlessness). We further developed a bare‐bones scale with only 25 items (10 items for job features, 12 items for total job, and 3 items for powerlessness). Results show that the content and construct validities of both the abridged and the bare‐bones scales are highly similar to the original JI scale. Our results provide support for the use of either the abridged or the bare‐bones JI scales. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.