The Motivation at Work Scale: Validation Evidence in Two Languages

Educational and Psychological Measurement - Tập 70 Số 4 - Trang 628-646 - 2010
Marylène Gagné1, Jacques Forest2, Marie‐Hélène Gilbert3, Caroline Aubé4, Estelle M. Morin4, Angela Malorni1
1Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
4École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Tóm tắt

The Motivation at Work Scale (MAWS) was developed in accordance with the multidimensional conceptualization of motivation postulated in self-determination theory. The authors examined the structure of the MAWS in a group of 1,644 workers in two different languages, English and French. Results obtained from these samples suggested that the structure of motivation at work across languages is consistently organized into four different types: intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, and external regulation. The MAWS subscales were predictably associated with organizational behavior constructs. The importance of this new multidimensional scale to the development of new work motivation research is discussed.

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