Measuring affective well-being at work using short-form scales: Implications for affective structures and participant instructions.

ABSTRACT: Measuring affective well-being in organizational studies has become increasingly widespread, given its association with key work-performance and other markers of organizational functioning. As such, researchers and policy-makers need to be confident that well-being measures are valid, reliable and robust. To reduce the burden on participants in applied settings, short-form measures of affective well-being are proving popular. However, these scales are seldom validated as standalone, comprehensive measures in their own right. In this article, we used a short-form measure of affective well-being with 10 items: the Daniels five-factor measure of affective well-being (D-FAW). In Study 1, across six applied sample groups (N = 2624), we found that the factor structure of the short-form D-

SUBMITTER: Russell E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6146316 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature