Fourth. in a study conducted by Dubin et al. (1975) it was found that
organizational commitment was related to the central life interest of
employees, defined in terms of an expressed orientation toward work ot
nonwork activities. in two diverse samples (see Dubin et al., 1975, for a
description of the measure). The results indicate that employees with a
work-oriented central life interest are more likely to be highly committed
to the organization than employees expressing a nonwork interest.
Moreover, nonwork-oriented employees were more likely than work-
oriented employees to express low levels of organizational commitment.