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
Current competences
Later competences
Later skill level of occupation
Current competences
Later competences
Later skill level of occupation