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Measurement of Beliefs

Rogene A. Buchholz

University of Minnesota, Business Administration Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

This study assesses two different approaches to measuring beliefs about work as a human activity. The first approach is a whole systems approach that asks for a response to five different concepts of work expressed in paragraphs on a questionnaire. The second approach involves responses to individual belief statements that are then factor analyzed to form the same five dimensions expressed in the paragraphs. The computation of results shows a significant difference in scores between the two methods of measuring beliefs, thus making the question of which method measures "true" belief a crucial one for future research.

Human Relations, Vol. 29, No. 12, 1177-1188 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/001872677602901206
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