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John,

Here are a few articles that relate to work centrality. You may also search for Lodahl and Kejner reference (it is quite old and I don't remember the year of publication) on job involvement. Their scale has been used to measure work centrality.

Baba, V.V. (1989).  Central life interests and job involvement: An exploratory study in the developing world.  International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 30, 3-4, 181-194.

Baba, V.V. & Jamal, M. (2002).  Job involvement and absence: The role of constraints as moderators. In M.Koslowski and M. Kraus (Eds.) Voluntary employee withdrawal and inattendance. New York, NY: Kluwer/Plenum

Baba, V.V., & Jamal, M. (1976).  Company satisfaction, company commitment and work involvement:  An empirical examination of blue collar workers.  Relations Industrielles, 31, 3, 434-447.

Mitchell, V.F., Baba, V.V., & Epps, T. (1975).  On the relationship between job involvement and central life interest.  Relations Industrielles, 30, 2, 166-180.

Good luck with your research.

Baba

I am forwarding this on behalf of my student. Apologies for cross posting:

I am a graduate student in Industrial/Organizational psychology at Bowling Green State University. For my master's thesis I am conducting a meta-analysis of work centrality and related constructs. As part of study collection, I am calling for any published or unpublished research related to work centrality.
 
In this meta-analysis I am considering the following scales to be measuring work centrality.
-       Work Involvement (Kanungo, 1982)
-       Work Involvement (War, Cook, & Wall, 1979)
-       Work Role Centrality (Mannheim, 1975)
-       Work Centrality (Meaning of Work, 1987)
-       Work Centrality (Paullay, Alliger, & Stone-Romero, 1994)

• Centrality of Work (Miller, Woehr, & Hudspeth, 2001)
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If you know of any research related to work centrality that may have been overlooked by other study collection procedures (e.g. psycINFO, Social Science Citation Index) please contact me at jkostek@bgsu.edu.
 
Thank you,
John Kostek
jkostek@bgsu.edu

Dear Scott,

Below are three papers which colleagues and I published several years ago, which I think may be relevant to your student's meta-analysis.

With best wishes,

Mike O'Driscoll

Paterson, J. and O'Driscoll, M.P. (1989).  Utility of the Australian Work Ethic Scale: Reliability and validity comparisons.  Australian Journal of Psychology, 41, 285-290.

Paterson, J. and O'Driscoll, M.P. (1990).  An empirical assessment of Kanungo's (1982) concept and measure of job involvement.  Applied Psychology: International Review, 39, 293-306.

O'Driscoll, M.P. and Randall, D. (1999).  Perceived organizational support, satisfaction with rewards, and employee job involvement and organizational commitment.  Applied Psychology: International Review, 48, 197-209.

I am forwarding this on behalf of my student. Apologies for cross posting:

I am a graduate student in Industrial/Organizational psychology at Bowling Green State University. For my master's thesis I am conducting a meta-analysis of work centrality and related constructs. As part of study collection, I am calling for any published or unpublished research related to work centrality.
 
In this meta-analysis I am considering the following scales to be measuring work centrality.
-       Work Involvement (Kanungo, 1982)
-       Work Involvement (War, Cook, & Wall, 1979)
-       Work Role Centrality (Mannheim, 1975)
-       Work Centrality (Meaning of Work, 1987)
-       Work Centrality (Paullay, Alliger, & Stone-Romero, 1994)

• Centrality of Work (Miller, Woehr, & Hudspeth, 2001)
•  

If you know of any research related to work centrality that may have been overlooked by other study collection procedures (e.g. psycINFO, Social Science Citation Index) please contact me at jkostek@bgsu.edu.
 
Thank you,
John Kostek
jkostek@bgsu.edu