Kahaki, Zeinab and Gharibi, Vahid and Keshavarz, Mojtaba and Cousins, Rosanna and Mokarami, Hamidreza (2022) Persian version of the Work Design Questionnaire: Measurement of its psychometric characteristics. BMC Psychology, 10 (219). ISSN 2050-7283
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Abstract
Background: Work design questionnaire (WDQ), as a comprehensive and integrative tool, is one of the most important instruments frequently used to assess work characteristics. The aim of this study was to measure the psychometric characteristics of the Persian version of WDQ.
Methods:Translation and cross-cultural adaptation procedures were applied in translating the original WDQ into Persian. A total of 270 participants participated in this study. The validity of the questionnaire were measured using face validity, content validity, convergent validity, and construct validity based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Reliability was assessed through internal consistency.
Results: Mean content validity index (CVI) was 0.95. The CFA results indicated support for a 21-factor solution. There were significant correlations between dimensions of WDQ and both job satisfaction and perceived stress. Cronbach's alpha of all items was 0.87.
Conclusion: Results indicated that the WDQ exhibited very good psychometric properties and can be applied as a useful tool to assess work characteristics among Iranian employees. Accordingly, the authors recommend its administration in future studies. The work characteristics was significantly associated with job satisfaction and job stress. Therefore, improved work design would reduce negative consequences, such as job stress, and increase positive behaviors, such as job satisfaction.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. |
| Keywords: | Work Design, Job characteristics, Work characteristics, Validity; Reliability; Iranian employees |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Rosanna Cousins |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Nov 2022 09:42 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2022 09:42 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3675 |
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