Measuring Appropriateness in the Assessment of Job Satisfaction

Latent trait theory or item characteristic curve theory has provided new insights into old problems in the measurement of mental aptitude. There are, however, several assumptions of the theory that may, on the surface, appear to restrict applications of the model. The assumptions that the test is unidimensional and that item responses are locally independent would seem to preclude the application of the theory from multidimensional job satisfaction measures. In direct opposition to this conservative view, this dissertation is written from the perspective that violations of these assumptions are relevant to statements about the robustness of the model rather than conclusions about its limited application. In the current study, the model is applied to the measurement of job satisfaction in an attempt to identify invalid response records.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Parsons, Charles Kramer

• Psychology, Industrial

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8018196

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66574