Reliability and Validity Estimation of Urdu Version of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised
Received 28 Aug, 2016 |
Accepted 24 Jul, 2018 |
Published 30 Jun, 2019 |
Present study aimed to establish the psychometric properties of Urdu Translation of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised Version (OCQ-R; Meyer, Allen, & Smith, 1993). This process completed in three phases. Phase-I comprised of forward-backward translations and then its linguistic equivalence was estimated with English version of OCQ-R on a group of bilingual respondents (N = 45). In Phase-II, reliability estimation of OCQ-RV including alpha coefficient index, split half, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was calculated on a sample of 360 respondents (165 men, 195 women) with age range between 25-40 years. Further, OCQ-R test re-test reliability was checked with one-week interval over 42 respondents. All indexes were calculated were found to be significant. In Phase III, OCQ-R validity estimation was established over sample of 310 participants using Urdu version of Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) and Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (Petrides & Furnhm, 2006) along with OCQ-R. Findings showed that Urdu version of OCQ-R demonstrated significant positive correlation with Urdu version of Job Satisfaction Survey, Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale and Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. It was concluded that Urdu version of OCQ-R showed sound psychometric properties and emerged as a culturally valid, reliable, and acceptable tool.
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Abbas,
Q., Khanam,
S.J., Ahmed,
R. (2019). Reliability and Validity Estimation of Urdu Version of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised . Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 34(2), 255-276. https://doi.org/10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.2.14
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Abbas,
Q.; Khanam,
S.J.; Ahmed,
R. Reliability and Validity Estimation of Urdu Version of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised . Pak. J. Psychol. Res 2019, 34, 255-276. https://doi.org/10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.2.14
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Abbas
Q, Khanam
SJ, Ahmed
R. Reliability and Validity Estimation of Urdu Version of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised . Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research. 2019; 34(2): 255-276. https://doi.org/10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.2.14
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Abbas, Qasir, Sarwat Jahan Khanam, and Riaz Ahmed.
2019. "Reliability and Validity Estimation of Urdu Version of Organizational Commitment Questionnaire-Revised " Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research 34, no. 2: 255-276. https://doi.org/10.33824/PJPR.2019.34.2.14

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