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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Brayfield-Rothe Index of Job Satisfaction.

BRJSI

What it measures
Overall (global) job satisfaction - general affective attitude toward one's job.
Length and format
18; 5-item short form widely used. 5-pt Likert agreement (Thurstone-derived item selection) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
ES, PT, ZH and others; the 5-item version travels widely
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
Brayfield, A.H., & Rothe, H.F. (1951). An index of job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Psychology, 35(5), 307-311.

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