Work and Meaning Inventory.
WAMI
- What it measures
- Meaningful work as a subjectively meaningful experience: Positive Meaning (in one's work), Meaning-Making through work, and Greater-Good Motivations (work benefiting a broader good).
- Length and format
- 10 (Positive Meaning 4, Meaning-Making 3, Greater Good 3). 5-pt 'absolutely untrue' -> 'absolutely true' ratings (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many validated translations (e.g. Chinese, Italian, Turkish, German and others) in meaningful-work research
- 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
- Steger, M.F., Dik, B.J., & Duffy, R.D. (2012). Measuring meaningful work: The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI). Journal of Career Assessment, 20(3), 322-337. http://www.michaelfsteger.com/
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