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TRIANGULATING JOB ATTITUDES WITH INTERPRETIVE AND POSITIVIST MEASUREMENT METHODS
Author(s) -
TABER TOM D.
Publication year - 1991
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.1744-6570.1991.tb02404.x
Subject(s) - psychology , positivism , job satisfaction , construct (python library) , strengths and weaknesses , meaning (existential) , social psychology , affect (linguistics) , construct validity , work (physics) , applied psychology , psychometrics , epistemology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , computer science , philosophy , communication , programming language , mechanical engineering , engineering
Interpretive research methods were used to gather and interpret employees’unstructured, written expressions of satisfying and dissatisfying job experiences. Clinical judgments were made of the categories of meaning and the overall affect expressed in the written passages. The judgments and interpretations then were correlated with both traditional, positivist, self‐report satisfaction scales and objective measures of work behavior. It was found that the language employees used to describe their job experiences converged significantly with the structured satisfaction measures and work behaviors. The results provide evidence for the construct validity of some traditional methods for assessing job satisfaction. Strengths and weaknesses of interpretive and positivist approaches to job satisfaction measurement are discussed.