A CRITICAL NOTE ON GEIST'S "WORK SATISFACTION AND SCORES ON A PICTURE INTEREST INVENTORY".
The article focuses on a correlation coefficient of .999 between a measure of occupational interest and one of occupational satisfaction. Any correlation of this size deserves careful study. This one in particular should be carefully scrutinized, both because it is in an area of considerable practic...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 74 - 76 |
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American Psychological Association
Feb65
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