Standardization of employees spiritual values scale (ESVS)

Pages:321-322
Akbar Husain and Shahin Zehra (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)
Musaddiq Jahan (Department of Psychology, Womens College Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

An employee has his own philosophy of life, values gives direction to his life. The main aim of the present study was to standardize an instrument for assessing spiritual values of the employees. One hundred non-teaching staff and one hundred school teachers from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh served as participants in this study. Principal Axis Factoring method was used to standardize the Employees Spiritual Values Scale (ESVS). The ESVS consisted of 15 items with three factors, namely, Values foster high quality Work, Intrinsic qualities, and Natural Qualities. Factor 1 and 2 comprised of 6 items each and the factor 3 comprised of three items. The numbers of items in ESVS are 15 and it is a 5-point Likert scale. Reliability of the ESVS was determined by Cronbach’s alpha and validity of the ESVS was determined by content validity.