Open AccessConstruct Validity of a Scale to Measure the Job Satisfaction of Professors at Public Universities in Central Mexico during COVID-19
Author(s) -
Cruz García Lirios
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
trilogía ciencia tecnología sociedad/trilogía ciencia tecnología sociedad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2145-7778
pISSN - 2145-4426
DOI - 10.22430/21457778.1826
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , construct validity , scale (ratio) , job satisfaction , psychology , variance (accounting) , covid-19 , pandemic , convergent validity , applied psychology , social psychology , psychometrics , geography , computer science , medicine , business , clinical psychology , cartography , accounting , disease , internal consistency , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
Until May 2021, six and a half million deaths had been directly and indirectly associated with COVID-19. This pandemic has impacted the traditional classroom by transferring it to online environments. The objective of this study was to establish the construct validity of an instrument that measures professors’ job satisfaction. A cross-sectional psychometric study was carried out with a selection of 100 professors from public universities in central Mexico. Three main factors were found to explain 56% of the total variance: information need, perceived usefulness, and technology adoption. Although the research design limited the results to the study setting, suggesting the extension of the work towards validity and convergent of the construct.