Assessing Quality of Working Life Among Malaysian Workers

In this study, the scale was translated and normalized into Malay. The scale was translated using the back-translation method, pretesting, and pilot testing. It was conducted among health care and office workers. It was tested in 3 stages; confirmatory factor analysis at stages 1 and 3 and exploratory factor analysis at stage 2. The Malaysian WRQLS-2 had 5 factors: "General Well-Being," "Job and Career Satisfaction," "Employee Engagement," "Home-Work Interface," and "Stress at Work." The scale showed good convergent and construct validity and also reliability. Perception of good QOWL may differ because of cultural influences and varying work environments. The validated Malaysian WRQLS-2 can be used to determine the QOWL of Malaysian office and health care workers.

Source: Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health - October 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sulaiman, N. S., Choo, W. Y., Mat Yassim, A. R., Van Laar, D., Chinna, K., Majid, H. A. Tags: 46th APACPH Conference Supplement Source Type: research