Factor structure for blacks and whites of the Job Descriptive Index and its discrimination of job satisfaction

Abstract

Administered the Job Descriptive Index to 212 white and 107 black civil service employees and 110 predominantly white bank employees to extend the index's convergent and discriminant validity, compare factor structures for white and black Ss, search for a general factor, and check the discriminability of items for 3 disparate groups. The 72 item scores were factor analyzed; factors for 5 scales (Work Pay, Promotion, Supervision, and Co-workers) were found for 2 or 3 groups with the exception of the Supervision scale which split into 2 factors for all groups. Item means discriminated among the 3 groups as predicted for their known situations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)