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An examination of the factorial, construct, and predictive validity and utility of the regulatory focus at work scale
Author(s) -
Wallace J. Craig,
Johnson Paul D.,
Frazier M. Lance
Publication year - 2009
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.572
Subject(s) - regulatory focus theory , predictive validity , scale (ratio) , work (physics) , psychology , focus (optics) , construct (python library) , productivity , construct validity , trait , social psychology , computer science , psychometrics , economics , clinical psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , quantum mechanics , creativity , macroeconomics , programming language
Although interest in regulatory focus research continues to grow, there has been very little work to date on the assessment and usefulness of regulatory focus in the workplace. The present research effort reports the results of a series of studies designed to assess the validity and utility of the Regulatory Focus at Work Scale (RWS). The results indicate that the RWS is reliable, valid, and showed incremental validity beyond general and trait‐like measures of regulatory focus in predicting relevant work outcomes of task performance, citizenship performance, safety performance, and productivity performance. The overall results of these studies support our claims that the RWS shows utility in predicting workplace outcomes and should prove useful for future research on regulatory focus in the workplace. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.