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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Andrews-Withey Job Satisfaction / Faces single-item measures.

What it measures
Overall job (and life) satisfaction via very short evaluative items, including the delighted-terrible scale; related to Kunin's Faces Scale (single-item smiley-face satisfaction).
Length and format
1-5 (single-item or very short). delighted-terrible 7-pt scale (Andrews-Withey); pictorial faces (Kunin) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Faces / single-item formats used internationally across many languages
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
public-domain / open

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Reference
Andrews, F.M., & Withey, S.B. (1976). Social Indicators of Well-Being. Plenum. (Kunin, T. 1955, Personnel Psychology, 8, 65-77.)

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