Measuring job satisfaction in the social services sector with the Rasch model

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-56

  Brentari, Eugenio ^a   Golia, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; JOB SATISFACTION; MANPOWER; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; ITALY; JOB SATISFACTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 39549092611     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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