2. General Information: *Note: The items were tested in German. These are English translations of the original German wordings. The translations do not correspond exactly to the formulations in the English ISSP source questionnaire.*
3. Question Text: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
   [Inwieweit stimmen Sie den folgenden Aussagen zu oder nicht zu?]
4. Instruction: (Please make a cross in EVERY line!) [(Bitte machen Sie in JEDER Zeile ein Kreuz!)]
6. Answer Categories

   Strongly agree [Stimme voll und ganz zu]

   Agree [Stimme zu]

   Neither nor [Weder noch]

   Disagree [Stimme nicht zu]

   Strongly disagree [Stimme überhaupt nicht zu]

   Don’t know [Kann ich nicht sagen]

   • Findings for Answer Categories
   • Recommendations for Answer Categories

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7. Findings/Recommendations for Multi-Item Scale:

   • Findings for Multi-Item Scale
   • Recommendations for Multi-Item Scale

   1. Findings for Multi-Item Scale: One test person (TP 02) has difficulties in understanding the term "organization" in all three items of the question battery. According to her own statement, she does not interpret it as the equivalent of "company", but to the effect that she has to organize something herself in her work: "I understand organization to mean that I help with the production process or the planning of the day. I don't know that now." Because of this difficulty in understanding, for all three items this test person answers "I can't say."
      
      Another subject (TP 08) states that he currently has two jobs (research assistant at a university, fitness trainer) and that he has to choose one of the two jobs when answering these items. In order to answer consistently, the respondent thinks of his second job (fitness trainer) in all three statements, but could just as well have thought of his first job or alternately of one of the two jobs.
      
      With regard to the battery of questions as a whole, it is also noticeable that a test person (TP 10) thinks of different activities in his previous professional life when answering the three statements and not only of his current job. When answering statements a) and b), this test person thinks of his previous job as an insurance agent, but when answering statement c), he thinks of her current job as a cleaner in a bakery. In addition, four test persons (TP 03, TP 04, TP 09, TP 13) state that they did not interpret the three statements uniformly, but sometimes thought of the profession they had learned and sometimes of the company or the job they were doing.

   1. Recommendations for Multi-Item Scale: As with question 4, we recommend supplementing the question with an instruction for the respondents. This should make it clear that the focus of the statements is on the company/organization where one is currently employed and that people who have several professional activities should only refer to their main job. A possible formulation would be:
      
      ”The following statements are about the company/organization where you are currently employed. If you currently have more than one professional activity, please answer the statements only for your main professional activity.
      To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?” [„Bei den folgenden Aussagen geht es um die Firma/Organisation, bei der Sie momentan beschäftigt sind. Falls Sie derzeit mehr als einer beruflichen Tätigkeit nachgehen, beantworten Sie die Aussagen bitte nur für Ihre hauptberufliche Tätigkeit.
      Inwieweit stimmen Sie den folgenden Aussagen zu oder nicht zu?“]

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1. Cognitive Techniques: General Probing, Specific Probing.

Items