In:
Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), FapUNIFESP (SciELO), Vol. 14, No. 2 ( 2009-08), p. 123-131
Abstract:
This article presents the process of adaptation of the Questionnaire on Means of Work - QMOW in Brazil. This instrument is integrated by two inventories and four scales about significance, perceptions, assignments, values and attitudes concerning the act of working. The methodological procedure to validated the instrument is constituted by following stages: systematization of theoretical and empirical basis on which is built the QMOW original version, the pilot instrument administration and the pre-test by the adapted version, including 680 people, with predominantly young adults, of the masculine and feminine sexes, from different work backgrounds and different degrees of schooling and income levels. The psychometrics data obtained from the instrument has shown a high internal consistency to the total of items of the inventories and scales and it has evidenced that QMOW Portuguese version is appropriate for administration in a Brazilian context.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1413-294X
DOI:
10.1590/S1413-294X2009000200005
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Publication Date:
2009
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2053138-2
