Development of a compact measure of job satisfaction: The abridged Job Descriptive Index

Jeffrey M. Stanton; Evan F. Sinar; William K. Balzer; Amanda L. Julian; Paul Thoresen; Shahnaz Aziz; Gwenith G. Fisher; Patricia C. Smith

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Development of a compact measure of job satisfaction: The abridged Job Descriptive Index

Jeffrey M. Stanton, Evan F. Sinar, William K. Balzer, Amanda L. Julian, Paul Thoresen, Shahnaz Aziz, Gwenith G. Fisher, Patricia C. Smith

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The Job Descriptive Index is a popular measure of job satisfaction with five subscales containing 72 items. A national sample (n = 1,534) and a sample of university workers (n = 636) supported development of an abridged version of the Job Descriptive Index (AJDI) containing a total of 25 items. A systematic scale-reduction technique was employed with the first sample to decide which items to retain in each scale. The abridged subscales were then tested in the second sample. Results indicated that the relationships among the five abridged subscales and between the five abridged subscales and other measures were substantially preserved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	173-191
Number of pages	19
Journal	Educational and Psychological Measurement
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/001316440206200112
State	Published - Feb 2002

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