Choosing the Final Scale Items
Since the goal was to develop a short, psychometrically sound measure, only items with factor loadings greater than 0.40 on a single factor were maintained. This resulted in 7 items on the engaging work subscale, 5 on the mystical experience subscale, and 3 on each of the sense of community and spiritual connection subscales, for a total of 18 items. The proportion of items selected for each dimension should be proportional to the content in the target construct ( Loevinger 1957 ). The engaging work and mystical experience subscales had more items than did the other two subscales because these factors subsumed several aspects of spirit at work.
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T o confi r m the reliability of these four factors, a second unweighted least squares factor analysis with promax rotation was conducted on the selected 18 items, and the same four factors emerged. The 18 items retained for the fi nal SAWS and their factor loadings are presented in Table 23.1 . Item means, standard deviations, and item-total correlations are shown in Table 23.2 .