title: A new approach to measuring work-related well-being.
abstract: The main aim of this study was to develop a short questionnaire to assess work-related well-being from the organizational behaviour perspective. The short well-being questionnaire enables measuring longitudinal work-related well-being. Work-related well-being was assessed with a 147-item questionnaire covering both organizational and intrinsic factors of work-related well-being. The questionnaire consisted of 27 categories. The respondents were 114 women (65%) and 62 men (35%), mean age 39.2 years, in various occupations. From the extensive questionnaire a shorter questionnaire with 33 items was developed by principal component analysis. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure to test the sampling adequacy of 27 factor solutions varied from .62 to .91 and Cronbach?s α was .74-.94. Most κ values of the shorter questionnaire were .50-.94 (p < .001). The reliability of the short version was comparable to that of the original questionnaire. The short one could also be suitable for Internet and mobile questionnaire applications.
authors.affiliation: Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Finland. reetta.orsila@uta.fi
authors.forename: Reetta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Orsila
authors.forename: Tiina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Luukkaala
authors.forename: Marja-Liisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Manka
authors.forename: Clas-Hakan
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Nygard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*