Errata: Life Experiences and Adults' Enduring Strength of Desires in Organizations
研究开发了衡量成年人对薪酬、群体关系、上下级关系和工作中成长等持久欲望强度的新量表，并通过生命周期、父母教育水平、性别和种族等变量验证其构念效度，发现这些欲望与个体差异存在有意义的关联。
September 1979, volume 24 This study reports the development of new measures of strength of enduring desires for existence in the form of pay, relatedness with the group and with supervisors, and growth in one's job. Propositions relating these four enduring desires to stages in the life cycle and to educational level of parents, sex, and race make it possible to assess the construct validity of the new measures. Results from a study of 229 adults in organizations show acceptable reliability and discrimination among the scales. The findings also show separate and theoretically meaningful patterns of relationship between each measure of enduring desire and life cycle, educational level of parents, sex, and race. These results imply a reconciliation between psychological and sociological interpretations of differences among individuals in their responses to organizational conditions through the use of concepts from intergroup theory.