English Faculty Members’ Job Satisfaction in Iran: Development and Validation of a Questionnaire

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Z. Azizi 1
E. Namaziandost 2
A. Rezai 3
1 Teaching English and Linguistics Department, Ayatollah Ozma Borujerdi University, Borujerd, Iran
2 PhD in Applied Linguistics (TEFL);Department of General Courses, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
3 University of Ayatollah Ozma Borujerdi, Borujerd City, Iran
Abstract
Although faculty members’ job satisfaction has received remarkable attention over the last two decades, there has been a long-lasting lack of a questionnaire to measure it in the Iranian context. Thus, the present study purported to develop and validate a questionnaire with adequate psychometric properties to measure Iranian English faculty members’ job satisfaction. To this aim, two samples of faculty members for the first pilot study (n = 62) and the second pilot study (n = 254) were selected from Ayatollah Borujerdi University and Lorestan University through a random sampling method. Based on the past literature, a pool of items (n = 74) was extracted and subjected to an eleven-step systematic procedure: content analysis and sampling; creating an item bank; running the first pilot; creating item pool one; expert judgment to evaluate the sub-scales; running an interview and think-aloud protocol; running Cronbach’s alpha; running the second pilot; running exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and Cronbach’s alpha; creating item pool two; and expert review. Results yielded a 60-item questionnaire with 6 sub-scales: 1. payment and rewards (10 items); promotion (7 items); supervision and interaction (17 items); job security (7 items); facilities of universities (7 items); and work nature (10 items). The hope is that the present questionnaire can be used for research and educational purposes in the future.

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