Construction d'une échelle d'attachement au lieu de travail: Une démarche exploratoire = Construction of a workplace attachment scale: An exploration

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement

Liliane Rioux

Attachment Behavior

Rating Scales

Test Construction

Test Validity

Working Conditions

test development

test validation

workplace attachment scale

The purpose of our article is to present a series of five studies on the development and validation of a workplace attachment scale, namely the 'Echelle d'Attachement au Lieu de Travail' (ÉALT). Based upon the Theory of Place Attachment elaborated by Schumaker & Taylor (1983) and conceiving attachment to the workplace as an affective tie between a person and his/her work environment, this scale is derived from the Neighborhood Attachment Scale (Bonnes & al., 1997). More than 750 men and women working in different professional sectors participated in these studies. Preliminary results showed that the ÉALT has adequate levels of internal consistency and temporal stability. The construct validity of this unidimensional scale is moreover confirmed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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325-336

octobre 2006

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement

10.1037/cjbs2006018

0008-400X

pdh

2006-23262-004