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This study sought to determine for a sample of industrial workers, supervisors, and vocational educators the factorial dimensions of the Affective Work Competencies Inventory (AWCI), and to estimate the reliability of scales which describe its factorial dimensions. The AWCI is a self-report Likert-type questionnaire designed to measure work attitudes, values, and habits desired by industry and educators.

Responses of 1,485 industrial workers, supervisors, and vocational educators to the AWCI were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis. The factors which emerged were analyzed in terms of their continuity, reliability, and meaningfulness as contributors to the instrument. The factor analysis procedure yielded five factors which accounted for most of the test variance while only using about half the number of items in the original instrument. Results suggested that the items describing the factors may be the basis of useful subscales for the instrument.

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The Factorial Validity of the Affective Work Competencies Inventory

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