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Measuring work attitudes with less: Supervised construct scoring to shorten work attitude measures

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Work attitude and perceptions surveys are useful to understand workforces and improve employee well‐being. However, surveys are often lengthy, leading companies to use less effective methods or measure only a few constructs. Researchers have tried various scale reduction methods, including single‐item measures (Matthews et al., Journal of Business and Psychology , 2022), but these and other scale‐shortening methods often compromise content validity and reliability. This research tests a novel scale‐shortening method called supervised construct scoring (SCS) to create shorter work attitude and perception measures. Despite using only 39% of the original items, SCS scores exhibited nearly equivalent psychometric properties as full‐scale scores and superior psychometric properties when compared to single‐item measures. SCS represents a paradigm shift in scale shortening, and the new Short Work Attitude and Perception Scales (SWAPS) algorithms are made freely available: https://osf.io/9tueh/?view_only=482dc89e3cbf4c1489e28aabff307caa .

Source: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

DOI: 10.1111/joop.70001

Authors: Andrew B. Speer, Angie Y. Delacruz, Lauren J. Wegmeyer

Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, Wayne State University

Language: English

Topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,760

Funder: Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology