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Peter Warr
Researcher at University of Sheffield
Publications - 176
Citations - 19120
Peter Warr is an academic researcher from University of Sheffield. The author has contributed to research in topics: Job satisfaction & Job performance. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 175 publications receiving 18204 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Warr include Social Science Research Council & Centre for Economic Performance.
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Scales for the measurement of some work attitudes and aspects of psychological well‐being
TL;DR: In this paper, eight scales relevant to the quality of working life are introduced and assessed, including work involvement, intrinsic job motivation, higher order need strength, perceived intrinsic job characteristics, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, happiness, and self-rated anxiety.
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Work, unemployment, and mental health
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of work and unemployment on mental health are studied and discussed, such as why some people are more harmed by unemployment than others; why certain job transitions are more difficult; and what we mean by "mental health" and how we can measure it.
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The measurement of well-being and other aspects of mental health
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe new instruments for the measurement of both job-related and non-job int-nta! health, which cover two axes of affective well-being, based upon dimensions of pleasure and arousal, and reported competence, aspiration and negative job carryover.
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Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between age and different forms of job satisfaction and found that the relationship is U-shaped, declining from a moderate level in the early years of employment and then increasing steadily up to retirement.
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Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness
TL;DR: Warr as mentioned in this paper explored different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combined environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people's experience, and showed that processes of happiness are similar across settings of all kinds.