Job Satisfaction Scale:Psychometric Properties in Migrant Employees
Tariku Ayan Abdi, Alessandro Lo Presti
There has been an increasing interest in studying migrant career success, which is partly assessed using the Job Satisfaction Scale. However, due to the under-theorization of migrant careers and their career success, to our best knowledge, no research has adopted the widely used Pejtersen et al.’s (2010) Job Satisfaction Scale. This research aims to adopt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Job Satisfaction Scale of Pejtersen and colleagues for its precision and broad applicability in measuring job satisfaction. We administered the Job Satisfaction Scale and the Career Satisfaction Scale to 251 African migrant employees working in Italy and investigated their psychometric properties. We analysed the reliability of the scale using Cronbach’s alpha, performed confirmatory factor analysis, and Pearson’s correlation to investigate its relationship with the Career Satisfaction Scale. The results showed that the Job Satisfaction Scale is reliable and has concurrent validity with the Career Satisfaction Scale. The scale has also demonstrated good psychometric properties and is appropriate to use for research and intervention purposes among migrant employees.
Keywords
Job satisfaction, Career success, Questionnaire, Career satisfaction, African migrant employees.
