Warr-Cook-Wall Job Satisfaction Scale.
WCW JSS
- What it measures
- Job satisfaction across intrinsic (7 items) and extrinsic (8 items) facets, summed to overall job satisfaction; plus an optional single overall-satisfaction item. Part of a wider Warr-Cook-Wall set of work-attitude / wellbeing scales.
- Length and format
- 15 (7 intrinsic + 8 extrinsic); +1 overall item. 7-pt satisfaction Likert (1 extremely dissatisfied -> 7 extremely satisfied) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- ES, PT (validated Portuguese + Spanish versions), 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Warr, P., Cook, J., & Wall, T. (1979). Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well-being. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 52(2), 129-148.
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