Compassion as the Affective Dimension of Public Service Motivation in a Chinese Context
We investigated the generalizability of compassion as the affective dimension of public service motivation (PSM) as observed in Western society to the context of social workers in China. We also examined the effects of compassion on job satisfaction. We found that the affective
dimension of PSM was present in the Chinese social workers. However, we split the factorial structure of Perry's (1996) original 8-item scale into 2 subgroups of negatively and positively phrased items (4 items in each subgroup). Further analysis indicated that the shortened scale of 4 negative
items had the best fit. We also found that compassion had a marginally positive relationship with job satisfaction of the social workers.
Keywords: CHINESE SOCIAL WORKERS; COMPASSION; JOB SATISFACTION; PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 March 2014
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