What About Me?
Values and Attitude Insights
HOW INVOLVED AM I IN MY JOB?
Below are ten statements each of which you may agree or disagree with depending on your personal evaluation of your present job. Please indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement with each statement using the following scale:

1 = Strongly disagree
2 = Disagree
3 = Mildly disagree
4 = Mildly agree
5 = Agree
6 = Strongly agree


  1. The most important things that happen to me involve my present job.


  2. To me, my job is only a small part of who I am.


  3. I am very much involved personally in my job.


  4. I live, eat, and breathe my job.


  5. Most of my interests are centered around my job.


  6. I have very strong ties with my present job which would be very difficult to break.


  7. Usually I feel detached from my job.


  8. Most of my personal life goals are job-oriented.


  9. I consider my job to be very central to my existence.


  10. I like to be absorbed in my job most of the time.


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Source: WORK ALIENATION, R.N. Kanungo. © 1982 by Praeger, New York. Evaluated in J.L. Price and C.W Mueller, HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL MEASUREMENT (Marshfeild, MA: Pitman, 1986) pp. 174?177. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT