A Quantitative Cross-Cultural Study Op Job Satispaction In The United States, Italy And Puerto Rico

By Hector Puig Arvelo

The study was designed to check the results obtained by Trier In teating eight hypotheses regarding job satiafaction among Michigan Industrial workers with the results obtained with Italian and Puerto Roan Industrial workers. The Itallan and Spanish translations of Trier's questionnaire were administered to 196 Italians and to 398 Puerto Ricans. The primary method of analysis coneiated of matching pairs of workers on all but one pertinent variable and computing the differences in satisfaction due to the variable. The variables included occupational status, income, company, age, sex, education, and father's occupational status. Questione on a Iikert type scale were aleo ueed to measure the worker's conception of how his family, friends, and neighbors perceive his job.

Phd. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1959. 99p.