Modern Psychological Studies
Volume
4
Number
2
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Date
1996
Abstract
This study was aimed at developing a scale to measure prosocial behavior in a work-related context that may predict Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs). The Prosocial Personality at Work Scale (PPWS) items were developed by adding a work-related frame-of-reference to items from the Prosocial Personality Battery (PSB; Penner, Fritzsche, Craiger, & Freifeld, 1995), a general measure of prosocial personality. In addition, some new items were generated. A sample of 55 participants completed the initial 14 item version of the PPWS. After an item analysis was performed and revisions made, a new sample of 99 participants anonymously completed three measures consisting of the 51-item PPWS, the 56 item PSB, and a measure of OCB, the 34-item Organizational Citizenship Scale (OCS; Midili & Penner, 1995). The results indicated that the PPWS had moderate intemal consistency reliability and it showed evidence of good construct and criterion-related validity. The correlation between the Helpfulness factor o f the PPWS and the Altruism factor of the OCS was .62 This correlation was significantly higher than the correlation between the Helpfulness factor of the PSB and the Altruism factor of the OCS (r=.41). This study's implications are that work-related prosocial·behavior items may be able to predict OCBs better than a general prosocial orientation.
Subject
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Document Type
article
DCMI Type
Text
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Recommended Citation
Steward, Antonia P.; Mennino, Sue Falter; and Fritzsche, Barbara A.
(1996)
"Development of the Prosocial Personality at Work Scale,"
Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 4:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol4/iss2/3
Department
Dept. of Psychology