On the validity and reliability of the job satisfaction Tear Ballot

Abstract

The Tear Ballot for Industry is designed to measure job morale or job satisfaction. On the hypothesis that job adjustment is likely to show a persistent pattern from past to future, a job tenure rate (total time in labor market divided by number of jobs held) was used as a validity criterion of the 10 items on the Tear Ballot. For 98 wage earners divided among 14 industries, validity coefficients were significant at the 1% level of confidence for 7 items, and at the 10% level for the remaining 3 items. The median reliability coefficient for 8 business groups on the Tear Ballot was .75. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)