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Self‐Reported Counterproductive Behaviors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Separate but Related Constructs
Author(s) -
Kelloway E. Kevin,
Loughlin Catherine,
Barling Julian,
Nault Alison
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00201
Subject(s) - psychology , organizational citizenship behavior , social psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , variance (accounting) , scale (ratio) , construct (python library) , counterproductive work behavior , construct validity , organizational behavior , organizational commitment , applied psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , statistics , physics , mathematics , accounting , quantum mechanics , computer science , business , programming language
The construct validity of self‐reported counterproductive work behaviors (CPBs) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) was explored by separating item content from item wording, through the confirmatory factor analysis of three scales: a CPB scale containing only negatively worded items, an OCB scale with only positively worded items, and the supervision subscale of the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) (Smith, Kendall and Hulin 1969) comprised of both negatively and positively worded items. Results (N = 475) suggest that self‐report measures of CPBs and OCBs are affected by method variance, but that the presence of such an influence does not compromise the substantive interpretation of these scales. Consequently, these scales do appear to be unique constructs.