Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire – Short Form: estudo de adaptação e validação para a população portuguesa

Abstract

Job satisfaction is the most studied variable in Organizational Psychology (Spector, 1997). However, only a few recent researches on its instruments are available (Saane, Sluiter, Verbeek, & Frings-Dresen, 2003). This research aims to add a contribution to the study of the psychometric qualities of a widely used instrument in this context, the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) – Short Form (Weiss, Dawis, England, & Lofquist, 1967), adapting it to the Portuguese population. In this sample (136 employees), the instrument showed adequate psychometric qualities, with a high values for internal consistency, adequate stability and satisfactory convergent validity (resulting from the correlation with the Cuestionario de Satisfaccion S20/23; Meliá & Peiró, 1989). The exploratory factorial analysis revealed a structure that suggests as expected the existence of two factors of job satisfaction. The discussion of the results pinpoints the need for more studies on this field and raised some suggestions for future research.