A factor analysis of responses from 136 Georgia public school superintendents to the short form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, a 20-item scale, yielded a single factor, General Satisfaction, accounting for 43.5% of the variance. For this population Intrinsic Satisfaction and Extrinsic Satisfaction were correlated .74 and were apparently not distinctive factors.
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