Assessing Job Satisfaction Among BCBAs in the Private Equity Sector of Applied Behavior Analysis

The Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), developed by Paul E. Spector (1994), is a validated tool designed to assess employee attitudes across nine key job facets: Pay, Promotion, Supervision, Fringe Benefits, Contingent Rewards, Operating Procedures, Coworkers, Nature of Work, and Communication (Spector, 1994). Each of the 36 items on the survey is rated on a six-point scale from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree," with about half of the items reverse-scored to control for response biases (Spector, 1994). The JSS is applicable across various organizational types, both private and public. Internal consistency reliabilities, measured by coefficient alpha, demonstrate the survey's robustness, with facet reliabilities ranging from .60 to .82 and an overall reliability of .91 (Spector, 1994). Originally developed for human service organizations, the JSS has been widely adopted due to its comprehensive coverage of job satisfaction dimensions and strong psychometric properties (Spector, 1985; Spector, 1997). The survey was implemented exactly as written, with no modifications to the questions or the response options.