Development and Validation of the German Work-Related Curiosity Scale

Receiving social support is widely considered a positive workplace phenomenon, but what about the employees from whom the support is being sought? Following recent calls from social support scholars, we focus on the “potential support provider” perspective of the social support dynamic and propose that the measure of social burden (Yang et al., 2016) currently used to capture this dynamic is significantly limited. In Study 1, we refine and expand the measure of social burden byconstructing and validating a measure of support elicitation experiences (SEE) that distinguishes between emotionally laden SEE (SEE-E; explicit or implicit requests for support with an emotional valence) and instrumental SEE (SEE-I; explicit requests for work-related support). In Study 2, based on Conservation of Resources Theory, we examine how SEE-E and SEE-I differentially relate to work outcomes and explore the potential costs of providing support in response to these behaviors. Results demonstrate that our measure of SEE is an improvement over the social burdenmeasure and support the empirical distinctiveness of emotionally laden (associated with negative outcomes) and instrumental (associated with positive outcomes) support elicitations. In addition, we find some evidence that routinely providing support for both SEE-E and SEE-I carries implications for undesirable workplace behavior. Findings from this research support the notion that there are often differential effects for the kinds of support we elicit from our colleagues andprovides researchers with an improved instrument to assess the social support dynamic from the perspective of potential support providers.

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Development and Validation of a questionnaire to describe behaviours and attitudes of physicians towards their own process of falling ill.

10.21203/rs.3.rs-103172/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Pilar Astier Peña ◽

Teresa Martínez Boyero ◽

Barbara Gómez Marco ◽

Candela Pérez Alvarez ◽

Alba Gállego Royo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Negative Impact ◽

Medical Profession ◽

Self Care ◽

Professional Associations ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Related Data ◽

Work Related ◽

Medical Associations ◽

Development And Validation

Abstract Background: Physicians have not learned their role as patients. Medical associations focused mainly on mental health programs for doctors in different countries. Nevertheless, the anomalous behaviours of ill doctors exist independently of their health problem. We described the development and validation of a questionnaire to describe Behaviours and Attitudes of Doctors towards their Own Illness (BADOI).Methods: Development of the questionnaire and appearance and content validation (ACV) by experts’ debriefings; construct validation by exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); reliability by Cronbach's alpha index (CAI) and feasibility by completion time (CT), accessibility to questionnaire platform and % of not answer items.Results: A Questionnaire with 56 items was developed with 3 sections: 1) socio-demographic, professional and work-related data. 2) Activities for self-care and work impact (sick leaves and presenteeism) and physicians’ healthcare pathways (Self-management and use of healthcare services). 3) Doctors of ill doctors and the role of medical associations. The validation sample size was of 4308 physicians’ answers. The factorial model presented 5 factors explaining 78.08% variance, a high value. Factor 1 explained 26.75% of the model describing the relationship between illness and work; Factor 2 explained 16.68%, with items regarding the negative impact of mental issues, toxic habits and the use of healthcare services; Factor 3 explained 15.06%, with items considering presenteeism and sick leaves; Factor 4 explained 9.95% regarding the handling of an ill colleague and medical associations. Finally, Factor 5 explained 9.64%, with items describing healthcare given to ill physicians and the revalidation of medical profession. Discussion: The factors grouped together items relating to self-care, impact on work and physicians’ healthcare pathways (F1-F2-F3) and the role of doctors of ill doctors and of the professional associations (F4-F5), being consistent with the 2 main perspectives: personal experience and caring for ill colleagues.Conclusion: A reliable Multidimensional Questionnaire on the process of physicians becoming ill has been validated in a large sample of registered doctors. It will help to identify and quantify physicians’ healthcare pathways allowing healthcare managers to set evidence-based interventions and formulate policies and ethical recommendations regarding the management of sick doctors.

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Development and validation of a work-related entitled behavior scale

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e518532013-134 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Glenda M. Fisk

Keyword(s):

Work Related ◽

Behavior Scale ◽

Development And Validation

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Development and Validation of the German Work-Related Curiosity Scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000098 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 109-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Patrick Mussel ◽

Maik Spengler ◽

Jordan A. Litman ◽

Heinz Schuler

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Present Article ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

Factor Solution ◽

Work Related ◽

The World ◽

Behavioral Tendencies ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Acceptable Internal Consistency

Curiosity, a personality trait underlying behavioral tendencies related to knowledge acquisition, learning, and thinking, can be expected to be of high relevance in the world of work. There is, however, to date no work-related curiosity measure. The present article reports results regarding the development and validation of the new 10-item Work-Related Curiosity Scale. Based on two studies, the measure had a one-factor solution, acceptable internal consistency, and expected construct validity. In Study 2, incremental criterion-related validities were found over and above five general curiosity scales (ΔR2 between .12 and .15), which is in line with the frame-of-reference approach underlying the development of the scale. Interestingly, the lack of evidence for criterion-related validity in Study 1 indicates that these results do not generalize across positions.

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Development and validation of an instrument for assessing collective psychological ownership in organizational field settings

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2016.66 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 776-792 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jon L Pierce ◽

Iiro Jussila ◽

Dahui Li

Keyword(s):

Scientific Inquiry ◽

Organizational Context ◽

Construct Validation ◽

Field Studies ◽

Incremental Validity ◽

Psychological Ownership ◽

Work Related ◽

Collective Work ◽

Mind Set ◽

Development And Validation

AbstractRecently, there emerged a theory of collective psychological ownership – an intersubjective sense of possession for different objects within the work and organizational context (e.g., work space). This shared mind-set has been cast as having the potential to explain a variety of collective, work-related attitudes, and actions. Preventing scientific inquiry into this phenomenon is the absence of an instrument for the measurement of this construct. The purpose of this work was the development and validation of such an instrument. To this end, work with a panel of judges and three sequentially conducted field studies was undertaken. Construct validation evidence (e.g., content, discriminant, nomological, and incremental validity) for an instrument for the assessment of collective psychological ownership is provided.

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