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Validation of Korean Version of Working As Meaning Inventory

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2017, v.31 no.4, pp.1-25
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2017.31.4.001


Abstract

The purpose of this study was to validate Working as Meaning Inventory(WAMI), originally developed by Steger, Dik, and Duffy(2012). To validate WAMI in Korean, a total of 618 Korean employees (386 males, 232 females) were investigated for this study. All participants completed K-WAMI questionnaire. Reliability and validity was verified. Exploratory factor analysis was performed with 208 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with 207 participants and it supported the three factors structure of K-WAMI, which was the same finding from the original scale. Also, the results from cross validation performed with 203 supported stable three-component structure. Configural invariance and measurement invariance were achieved with the new sample. Additionally, measurement invariance and latent mean difference between males and females were studied. Measurement invariance between males and females were supported and females showed the lower 'meaning in work' level than males. In conclusion, K-WAMI has been validated and is expected to be used as a psychometrically robust instrument in the future studies. Finally, implications and limitations of the present study and the suggestion for the future research were discussed.

keywords
일의 의미, 삶의 의미, 웰빙, 긍정심리학, meaning in work, meaning in life, wellbeing, positive psychology

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