Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Khan Abrar uz Zaman Khan ¹, Sonali Chandrakar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, IN
2 Institute of Teachers Education, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, IN

Abstract

The objective of the present empirical piece of research work is to examine the predicting effects of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions on job satisfaction. 61 school teachers were drawn from different school, by incidental-cum random sampling technique from different school at Raipur city to serve as participants in the present research work. Correlational research design was employed. Job satisfaction was measured by Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967). Perceived organizational support was measured by 8 item survey scale of perceived organizational support (Eisenberger, Hungtington, Hutchison, & Sowa, 1986). Personality dimensions were measured by EPQRS-H (Tiwari, Singh, & Singh, 2009). Predication effect was worked out through regression analysis. Results of study indicated that, perceived organizational support was positively linked with job satisfaction. Further, neuroticism was negatively and extraversion was positively associated with job satisfaction. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of the predicting effect of perceived organizational support and personality dimensions on job satisfaction.

Keywords

Perceived Organizational Support, Personality Dimensions and Job Satisfaction.

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Khan Abrar uz Zaman Khan ¹, B. Hasan ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychiatry, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chattisgarh, IN
2 Psychometrics Laboratory, School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, IN

Abstract

The objective of the present piece of work was to development and validation of acculturative stress scale for within country migrated students in India. Following the incidental cum random sampling technique, 200 North Indian students within the age range of 18 to 24 years were drawn from the different institution of Warangal districts, Telangana, India to serve as participants in the present research work. Dimensions of acculturative stress were decided on the basis of the review of the literature on acculturative stress. Items were pooled out by unstructured interviews. Content validity was analysed by content validity index (CVI) suggested by (Lynn, 1986). The item analysis was done by corrected item-total correlation. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was employed for explored all possible factor. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to confirm explored factors. Moreover, reliability, convergent, discriminant and concurrent validities were also examined. EFA of 19-item pool yielded a 16-item measure with five independent dimensions. The items communalities ranges are greater than .400. Overall variance explained by all these factors is 63.50%. CFA also confirmed the explored all five factors from the EFA. The findings indicated that ASS-16 has sufficient convergent and discriminant validity. The composite reliability was more than .700 for each of the five factors. All five factors of the ASS-16 are significantly associated with criterion measure. It is concluded that there is sufficient empirical and statistical evidence of internal consistency and construct validity of ASS-16. The theoretical and practical issues have been discussed.

Keywords

Acculturative Stress, within Country Migrated Students.

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