Evaluación de los instrumentos de medida de afecto y bienestar en el trabajo publicados en periódicos de Psicología y Administración de 1996 a 2015

Resumen

This article analyzes the scientific productions published in the journals and journals of the Psychology and Administration areas, between 1996 and 2015, which proposed the creation and / or validation of measurement instruments using inferential analysis, in subjects related to affect and wellbeing at work (new instrument, adaptation / Brazilian’s version of foreign instrument, factorial validation with other samples / occupations) and with the focus (individual or context of work). We used a database in Excel containing 860 Articles of Organizational Behavior – CO from there twenty-six articles were analyzed according to the criteria of having inferential measures classified as Affect and Wellbeing at Work. The results shows that quantitative scales correspond to Wellbeing at work (19%) and Job Satisfaction (15%), 42% of articles were translation / adaptation of foreign scales, 35 % creation and factorial validation of national scales, and 70% of the measures turn to the evaluation of individual characteristics, treating the worker as an organizational adjustment variable. It is considered that the direction for replications of measures created or already adapted to Brazil, allowing new evidence of factorial validation, as well as its effective publication in periodicals of the Psychology and Administration area, would broaden the generalization of the results and the strengthening of the theoretical constructs developed for organizational phenomena, leading to better dissemination and application in the labor context.

Keywords: scales of measure, well-being at work, organizational behavior