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The discriminant validity of work alienation and work satisfaction measures
Author(s) -
SEYBOLT JOHN W.,
GRUENFELD LEOPOLD
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1976.tb00345.x
Subject(s) - alienation , operationalization , job satisfaction , psychology , social psychology , discriminant validity , construct (python library) , construct validity , work (physics) , psychometrics , developmental psychology , epistemology , political science , internal consistency , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , law , programming language , engineering
The attitudes of work alienation and work satisfaction have had separate, although parallel, study in the behavioural science literature. Operational measures of the attitudes are examined to determine if in fact they are separate attitudes, or merely different terms for the same construct. The results reveal that when studying specifically job‐related variables, the measures of the two attitudes are extremely similar. In fact, they appear to be differentially related only to level of formal education and this is true only for certain occupational levels. The results suggest that the considerable overlap found between the measures of the two variables argues for a re‐operationalization of work alienation as a structural or objective state of being, not an evaluative, subjective reaction.