Job-related Affective Well-Being Scale.
JAWS
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
- 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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The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue.
- JAWS - Job-related Affective Well-being Scale
30 (long form); 20 (short form). open with attribution.
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