Job-related Affective Well-being Scale.
JAWS
Affective well-being specifically at work, mapped on the circumplex dimensions of pleasure-displeasure and arousal; emotions experienced on the job over the past 30 days.
- Length and format
- 30 (long form); 20 (short form). 5-pt frequency (how often each emotion felt at work in past 30 days) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages (e.g. ES, ZH, and others) for occupational-health research
- 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.
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- JAWS - Job-related Affective Well-Being Scale
30 (full); 20 (short form). open with attribution.
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