A Validation of Hoppock's Job Satisfaction Measure

Abstract

The article focuses on a study that examines the validity of job satisfaction measures applied to organizational research. The study presents a number of details on the job satisfaction measure developed by Hoppock in 1935. Also discussed are various uses of Hoppock's job satisfaction measure as a criterion variable in research on personal values systems. According to the results of the study, Hoppock's measure of job satisfaction has significant utility in contemporary organizational research at the time of publication.