Introduction to the special issue: A cross-cultural exploration of decent work

Decent Work’s Association With Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Withdrawal Intentions in Australian Working Adults

“…There were no significant main effects for Income Job satisfaction is a frequently studied indicator of workers' experiences (Judge et al, 2017). As was the case in other nations' DWS validations studies (Duffy, Blustein, et al, 2019), not all of the DWS subscales predicted job satisfaction. In the present dataset, job satisfaction correlated with all DWS subscales, except Time and Rest; however, only Access to Health Care and Values Congruence emerged as the unique predictors in the regression model.…”

“…A special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (Duffy, Blustein, et al, 2019) reported on other nations' versions of the DWS, including Brazil (Ribeiro, Teixeira, & Author version: McIlveen, P., Hoare, P. N., Perera, H. N., Kossen, C., Mason, L., Munday, S., Alchin, C., Creed, A., McDonald, N. (2020). Decent work's association with job satisfaction, work engagement, and withdrawal intentions in Australian working adults.…”

“…Individuals whose annual incomes fall beneath a low-income threshold are entitled to pay a lesser levy or no levy. Australian employers do not fund their employees' health care insurance, thus, the present research required amendments to the Access to Health Care items of the DWS in a way similar to other nations reported in the international DWS project (Duffy, Blustein, et al, 2019), such as South Korea and the UK, which have government-funded universal health care systems. Accordingly, the wording of items of the DWS Access to Health Care subscale were amended to suit the health-care systems of nations with full "universal" or partial government funding, such as South Korea (Nam & Kim, 2019), the UK (Dodd et al, 2019), and Switzerland (Masdonati et al, 2019).…”

“…A special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (Duffy et al, 2020) reported on other nations’ versions of the DWS, including Brazil (Ribeiro et al, 2019), Italy (Di Fabio & Kenny, 2019), France (Vignoli et al, 2020), Portugal (Ferreira et al, 2019), South Korea (Nam & Kim, 2019), Switzerland (Masdonati et al, 2019), Turkey (Buyukgoze-Kavas & Autin, 2019), and the United Kingdom (Dodd et al, 2019). With some modifications to suit the respective cultural contexts, the proposed five dimensions of decent work were consistently evident in the international studies.…”

“…Decent work is the subject of psychological theory and research (Blustein et al, 2016) and is the conceptual centerpiece of the psychology of working theory (PWT; Duffy et al, 2016), which offers a radically inclusive perspective for career development practice (Blustein et al, 2019). PWT has been the stimulus for research into the development and evaluation of a psychometric measure, the Decent Work Scale (DWS; Duffy et al, 2017), which has been validated in different nations (Duffy et al, 2020). The present research is the first to appraise the measurement properties of the DWS in an Australian context.…”