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Development and validation of a unifactorial measure of citizenship performance
Author(s) -
Poropat Arthur E.,
Jones Liz
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of occupational and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0963-1798
DOI - 10.1348/096317908x374139
Subject(s) - psychology , organizational citizenship behavior , citizenship , measure (data warehouse) , convergent validity , interpersonal communication , construct (python library) , social psychology , scale (ratio) , construct validity , facilitation , psychometrics , developmental psychology , organizational commitment , computer science , political science , data mining , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , politics , law , internal consistency , programming language
Citizenship Performance has long been accepted as an important aspect of performance, but there has been little consensus on how best to measure this construct. Previous measures have assessed as many as five sub‐factors, yet recent meta‐analyses have indicated that citizenship is largely unifactorial. At the same time, none of the previously developed unifactorial Citizenship Performance scales have been adequately validated. Consequently, this article reports the development of a unifactorial measure of Citizenship Performance, which was found to have good criterion validity. The unifactorial scale also had superior convergent and divergent validity, and better internal factor structure, than the commonly‐used Job Dedication and Interpersonal Facilitation scales, developed by Van Scotter and Motowidlo (1996).