Work Meaning in Self and World Perspective: A New Outlook on the WAMI Scale

Abstract: Recent research demonstrates that finding the meaning of work (MW) is a growing need among employees. It thus seems vital to examine the predictors and outcomes of meaningful work with the aim of identifying practical implications for employees and organizations in this area. However, there are several different concepts of MW and only a handful of published measures. Using the framework of the big two we proposed and developed a two-dimensional model of MW: agentic work meaning (the self-perspective) and communal work meaning (the world perspective). The aim of our research was to adapt the Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI; Steger, Dik, & Duffy, 2012) into Polish and to verify the hypothesis of a two-dimensional model of MW, which is a new perspective on this scale. The three studies conducted amongst employees in Poland (N = 403) supported our ideas. First, confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the two-dimensional model of MW in WAMI-PL, i.e., meaning in the self and .... https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2505

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Work Meaning in Self and World Perspective: A New Outlook on the WAMI Scale ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; day:15 ; month:05 ; year:2019 ; Social psychological bulletin ; 14, Heft 1 (15.05.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Malwina Puchalska-Kamińska ; Agnieszka Czerw ; Marta Roczniewska

Further information

• DOI: 10.32872/spb.v14i1.30207
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101416175448817456
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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