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Watson & Slack (1993): study US Texas 1984

Publication

Author(s):
Watson, D.; Slack, K.
Title:
General Factors of Affective Temperament and their Relation to Job Satisfaction over Time.
Source:
Organizational Behavior and Human Processes 54, 181 - 202

Investigation

Public
University personnel, United States, followed 4 years, 1984-1988
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Non-probability self-selected
Respondents
N = 82
Non Response
21.9%
Assessment
Multiple assesment methods
self reports on questionnaires and rating by experts

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on 25 questions:

A: 11 positive items

B: 14 negative items

Rating:
1:  true
0:  false

Computation: (A:11) - (B:14)

Text of the items not available

Subscales of Telligen's Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), Positive Emotionality (Pem) and Negative Emotionality (Nem) and
Classification:
A-AB-g-mq-v-2-a
Author's label:
Affective temperament
Remarks:
Time 1: M = 2.31
Time 2: M  = 3.69
SD cannot be computed
T1 = initial
T2 = on average 27 months later

Time 1: fall of 1984, 1985, 1986
Time 2: May 1987
Page in publication:
187
Error estimates:
Cronbach's alpha: - Negative emotionality: 0.82 - Positive emotionality: 0.80
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 1 On range 0-10
Mean:
2.31 -
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Perceived job changes