The development and preliminary testing of a scale to measure the latent and manifest benefits of employment
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Article Title | The development and preliminary testing of a scale to measure the latent and manifest benefits of employment |
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ERA Journal ID | 6256 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Muller, Juanita J. (Author), Creed, Peter A. (Author), Waters, Lea E. (Author) and Machin, M. Anthony (Author) |
Journal Title | European Journal of Psychological Assessment |
Journal Citation | 21 (3), pp. 191-198 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2005 |
Place of Publication | Cambridge, MA. United States |
ISSN | 1015-5759 |
2151-2426 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.21.3.191 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.psyjournals.com/abstracts/hh/contents.en.php?code=jpa&year=2005&issue=03 |
Abstract | Theorists have argued the importance of the latent and manifest benefits of employment and their relationship with psychological well-being. However, no one scale has been devised that adequately and reliably measures all five latent and one manifest benefit together. The aims of this study were to develop such a scale that satisfies standards for psychometric adequacy, and to present evidence for its validity. In the scale development phase, in-depth interviews with 33 unemployed adults and comments from labour market experts were used in the item generation process. In Study 1, 307 unemployed adults were surveyed, and item analysis, inter-item and item-total correlations and factor analysis were used to reduce the item pool to |
Keywords | latent benefits; manifest benefits; unemployment; Jahoda; Fryer; access to categories of experience |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520104. Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) |
520105. Psychological methodology, design and analysis | |
420313. Mental health services | |
Public Notes | © 2005 Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. Published version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
University of Melbourne | |
Department of Psychology |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xq14/the-development-and-preliminary-testing-of-a-scale-to-measure-the-latent-and-manifest-benefits-of-employment
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