Work alienation as an individual-difference construct for predicting workplace adjustment: A test in two samples

This study represents the first attempt to examine the validity of work ali enation as a general attitude toward the work domain. As hypothesized, hier archical regression analyses of data from 2 employee samples (n = 99 and n = 250) indicated that work alienation explained incremental variance in sel ected workplace adjustment variables (i.e., job involvement, affective orga nizational commitment, affective occupational commitment, overall job satis faction, and volitional absence) beyond the variance accounted for by work conscientiousness (i.e., dependability and achievement orientation) and by variables used to control for sources of self-report variance (i.e., self-d eception and negative affectivity). These results support the legitimacy of work alienation as an individual-difference construct associated with work -related adjustment.