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INTUITIVE‐THEORETICAL SCALES OF CONTENT AND CONTEXT SATISFACTION
Author(s) -
MURPHY GREGORY C.,
FRASER BARRY J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1978.tb00458.x
Subject(s) - psychology , context (archaeology) , discriminant validity , content (measure theory) , consistency (knowledge bases) , content validity , job satisfaction , scale (ratio) , social psychology , internal consistency , discriminant , applied psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , mathematics , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Evidence has suggested the usefulness of viewing job satisfaction as composed of content and context aspects. Armstrong attempted to develop intuitive‐theoretical scales measuring content and context satisfaction but the scales lacked discriminant validity. The present study attempted the development of content and context scales based on Schletzer's overall job satisfaction instrument. After the criteria of internal consistency and discriminant validity were applied in refining scales, it was found that the inter‐correlation between content and context scales after correction for attenuation was 0.06 and 0.05 for two separate samples of professional workers. It was concluded that the data provided some support for the content‐context dichotomy. Application of the new scales and the general method for developing scales in industrial and organizational psychology are considered.