PSY 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Environment, Minsk National Airport, Nomological Network
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Chapter 8: beliefs and attitudes about work and the organizations. Attitudes - how we evaluate some particular person, situation, or object. Construct validity - measure is actually assessing what we think it"s assessing. Two key strategies for gathering evidence for construct validity with quantitative measure of job satisfaction: How our chosen measure of job satisfaction correlates with other job satisfaction measures. Our job satisfaction should not correlate very highly with measures that aren"t job satisfaction. Nomological network: nomo = lawful, logical = reasonable connection or relationship between ideas. Michigan organizational assessment questionnaire (moaq) - job satisfaction sub-scale. Part of larger battery of organizational assessment items. Assesses 5 facets of job satisfaction (72 items) Normative data - we know typical raw scores people receive on the jdi across each dimensions. Can we combine facet scores for a global score? (no) 100 item full version, 20 item brief form. Assesses 9 facets of job satisfaction (36 items)
