Overall job satisfaction: How good are single-item measures?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wanous, JP; Reichers, AE; Hudy, MJ
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.82.2.247
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 247-252

摘要

A meta-analysis of single-item measures of overall job satisfaction (28 correlations from 17 studies with 7,682 people) found an average uncorrected correlation of .63 (SD =.09) with scale measures of overall job satisfaction. The overall mean correlation (corrected only for reliability) is .67 (SD =.08), and it is moderated by the type of measure ment scale used. The mean corrected correlation for the best group of scale measures (8 correlations, 1,735 people) is .72 (SD =.05). The correction for attenuation formula was used to estimate the minimum level of reliability for a single-item measure. These estimates range from .45 to .69, depending on the assumptions made.