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The measurement of shop‐floor job satisfaction: The convergent and discriminant validity of the Worker Opinion Survey
Author(s) -
SOUTAR GEOFFREY N.,
WEAVER JOHN R.
Publication year - 1982
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.2044-8325.1982.tb00075.x
Subject(s) - discriminant validity , job satisfaction , opinion survey , psychology , expert opinion , convergent validity , variety (cybernetics) , social psychology , applied psychology , opinion leadership , statistics , public relations , psychometrics , mathematics , political science , medicine , clinical psychology , intensive care medicine , internal consistency
The Worker Opinion Survey, developed by Cross (1973), is a useful job satisfaction instrument with many desirable features. However, it has not been validated to any extent. The present paper reports a study which examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the Worker Opinion Survey in relation to the Job Descriptive Index in a variety of ways. The results supported the validity of the Worker Opinion Survey and strengthened its usefulness as a research instrument.