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Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts
Dissertation (MCom (Industrial Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/110145 Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts Olckers, Chantal corne.booysen@tts-talent.com Booysen, Corne psychological ownership generational cohorts Generation X Generation Y Baby boomers measurement equivalence South Africa. Dissertation (MCom (Industrial Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2017. Orientation: Organisations are becoming increasingly age diverse as the current workforce is more varied than ever before. Inter-generational differences influence all aspects of people management, including recruitment, training and development, career development, job satisfaction and working arrangements. Current organisations are now faced with the challenge of incorporating the three generational cohorts in the workplace together with the complexity of creating environments to attract, satisfy and retain workers of each generational cohort. It is important to enhance psychological ownership to improve employees’ job satisfaction, commitment and intention to stay in the organisation. Moreover, it is important to understand each generational cohort’s psychological factors and needs to be able to improve their psychological ownership. _ Research purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the configural, metric and scalar equivalence of the South African Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (SAPOS) across the different generational cohorts. _ Motivation for the study: In order for managers to use psychological ownership to improve work-related outcomes such as commitment, job satisfaction and the intention to stay with the organisation, it is important to determine that the SAPOS measures the same trait across all three generational cohorts. _ Research design, approach and method: A quantitative cross-sectional research design was followed. A convenient and purposive non-probability sample was used to administer the SAPOS on 945 respondents in various public and private organisations in South Africa. Measurement equivalence was tested to determine if the generational cohorts perceive psychological ownership in the same way. Prior to measurement equivalence, item analysis and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) was used to confirm the factors of the SAPOS. xi _ Main findings: The study’s results yield full configural, metric and scalar equivalence for the SAPOS across the generational cohorts. This implies that all three generational cohorts perceive psychological ownership the same way. In addition, one item might be an indication of item bias which future studies might consider releasing. _ Practical implications: The SAPOS can be used to determine the level of psychological ownership the organisation’s employees have, as well as investigating the level on which the generational cohorts differ on the outcomes of psychological ownership such as job satisfaction, commitment and turnover intent. _ Contribution: The study contributed to the theoretical aspects of psychological ownership and generational studies. The study refute current literature indicating that generational cohorts are more different from one another than having similarities. The study’s contribution is pivotal in the sense that the SAPOS is valid and reliable to measure psychological ownership across the generational cohorts within a South African context, as the instrument is unbiased and valid. Human Resource Management MCom (Industrial Psychology) 2026-05-15T17:26:26Z 2026-05-15T17:26:26Z 17/07/14 2017 Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2263/110145 en application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | psychological ownership generational cohorts Generation X Generation Y Baby boomers measurement equivalence South Africa. Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title | Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title_full | Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title_fullStr | Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title_short | Measurement equivalence of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| title_sort | measurement equivalence of the south african psychological ownership questionnaire across generational cohorts |
| topic | psychological ownership generational cohorts Generation X Generation Y Baby boomers measurement equivalence South Africa. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/110145 |