THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SHORT MONEY ETHIC SCALE - ATTITUDES TOWARD MONEY AND PAY SATISFACTION REVISITED

被引:137
作者
TANG, TLP
机构
[1] Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
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10.1016/S0191-8869(95)00133-6
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B84 [心理学];
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04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
In order to measure people's attitudes toward money, a 12-item Money Ethic Scale (MES) was developed based on a sample of 740 subjects. Three factors were identified: Success, Budget, and Evil. Attitudes toward money as related to people's demographic variables, personality variables, and job satisfaction were examined. Those who scored high on the Money Ethic Scale (the overall Money score) tended to have high economic values, low religious values, high Type A behavior pattern, to be older, to have low pay satisfaction, and high political values. Implications related to compensation management are discussed.
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