Psychometric Evaluation of the Organizational Job Satisfaction Scale

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-69

  Sauter, Maranah A ^a   Boyle, Diane ^f   Wallace, Debra ^f   Andrews, Janet L ^f   Johnson, Marjorie S ^f   Bates, Mary ^b   Edenfield, Sandra M ^c   Carr, Rebecca ^f   Campbell, Laura ^d   Hamilton, Bernita K ^e   Taunton, Roma Lee ^f  

^a LAGRANGE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b West Georgia Medical Center   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d Metropolitan Psychotherapy Associates   (United States)

^e GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LaGrange College Division of Nursing ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NURSES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031151388     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.5.1.53     Document Type: Article

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