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Cultural adaptation of a job satisfaction assessment tool

Abstract

Introduction: work plays an important role in people’s life and depending on its organization and execution it can generate satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The most widely used method to assess job satisfaction has been the application of measuring instruments.

Objective: to perform the cultural adaptation of the Job Satisfaction Survey for use in the context of Brazilian’s workers.

Method: the instrument cultural adaptation consisted of the following steps: (1) Translation by two independent translators; (2) Proofreading by a third translator and specialists; (3) Back-translation by two independent translators; (4) Review by a committee review; (5) Verification of the Content Validity Index; (6) Pre-test with nursing personnel; (7) Latest adjustments.

Results: semantic, idiomatic, cultural and conceptual equivalence between the translated version and the original version were obtained and it was observed ease of understanding and acceptance of the items of the questionnaire in the context of the nursing personnel.

Conclusion: the analysis of the experts committee and the pre-test showed the items are relevant to Brazilian culture and to assess the scale proposed by the original instrument.

Keywords:
job satisfaction; occupational health; validation studies

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