Job-related Affective Well-Being Scale.

JAWS

What it measures

Job-related affective wellbeing - frequency of discrete work emotions mapped on a circumplex of pleasure-displeasure x high-low arousal; yields positive/negative and high/low-arousal affect scores and an overall affective-wellbeing index.

Length and format

30 (full); 20 (short form). 5-pt frequency Likert (never -> extremely often, past 30 days) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Multiple incl. ES, ZH, PT, FA and others

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

open with attribution

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Reference

Van Katwyk, P.T., Fox, S., Spector, P.E., & Kelloway, E.K. (2000). Using the Job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) to investigate affective responses to work stressors. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(2), 219-230. https://paulspector.com/

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