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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Areas of Worklife Survey.

AWS

What it measures
Person-job fit across six areas of worklife that drive burnout vs engagement: Workload (manageable), Control, Reward, Community, Fairness, Values (congruence).
Length and format
28 (full); 18 (short, 6 areas x 3). 5-pt agreement Likert (strongly disagree -> strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many incl. ES, IT, PL, ZH, PT and others (Mind Garden-licensed translations)
Normative data
Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Leiter, M.P., & Maslach, C. (2004). Areas of worklife: A structured approach to organizational predictors of job burnout. In P. Perrewe & D. Ganster (Eds.), Research in Occupational Stress and Well-being, Vol. 3. Elsevier. Published by Mind Garden, Inc.

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