It is suggested that work importance research has suffered from construct proliferation, and that the literature would benefit from returning to Dubin’s (1956) original notion of work importance as a general construct – representing the degree to which work plays a central role in one’s life space. Measures of three work importance constructs (i.e., work involvement, job involvement, work ethic endorsement) were administered to (n = 758) working adults from the USA to examine dimensionality using bifactor analysis. Results showed the bifactor model fit the data better than a one-factor or three-factor model. The bifactor model suggests that both general and domain-specific factors appear to exist, but that the general work importance factor predicts most work outcomes to a substantial degree.

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在奋斗中寻找意义

建议对工作重要性的研究因构造的泛滥而遭受苦难，从杜宾（1956年）最初将工作重要性的概念作为一般构造返回到文献中将会受益，这代表了工作在一个人的生活空间中起着核心作用的程度。 。对美国的（n = 758）在职成年人进行了三种工作重要性构成（即工作参与，工作参与，职业道德认可）的测量，以使用双因素分析法检查维度。结果表明，双因素模型比一因素或三因素模型更适合数据。双因素模型表明，一般因素和特定领域因素似乎都存在，但是一般工作重要性因素在很大程度上预测了大多数工作成果。