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- Title
Overall job satisfaction: how good are single-item measures?
- Authors
Wanous, J P; Reichers, A E; Hudy, M J
- Abstract
A meta-analysis of single-item measures of overall job satisfaction (28 correlations from 17 studies with 7,682 people) found an average uncorrected correlation of .63 (SD = .09) with scale measures of overall job satisfaction. The overall mean correlation (corrected only for reliability) is .67 (SD = .08), and it is moderated by the type of measurement scale used. The mean corrected correlation for the best group of scale measures (8 correlations, 1,735 people) is .72 (SD = .05). The correction for attenuation formula was used to estimate the minimum level of reliability for a single-item measure. These estimates range from .45 to .69, depending on the assumptions made.
- Publication
The Journal of applied psychology, 1997, Vol 82, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
0021-9010
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0021-9010.82.2.247