Satisfaction, job involvement, and intrinsic motivation: An extension of Lawler and Hall's factor analysis.

E. E. Lawler and D. T. Hall's (see record 1970-21689-001) factor analytic study of the independence of the job attitudes of satisfaction, job involvement, and intrinsic motivation contains a major methodological weakness that makes interpretation of their results problematic. This weakness pertains to scaling differences between the satisfaction measures and the items comprising the other 2 variables. The present study attempted to overcome this method difference by using "is now" measures of satisfaction rather than the discrepancy measures used by Lawler and Hall. The study also extended their results to a blue-collar sample (96 males with an average age of 41.2 yrs) in contrast to the research scientists of their study. Results support Lawler and Hall's conclusion that these job attitudes are conceptually distinct and empirically independent; their findings seem to apply to both blue- and white-collar workers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)