investigate the psychometric features of work related flow inventory

the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric features (construct reliability and validity) of baker’s  (2008) 13 - item work  related fondness questionnaire. so  260  employees of  iran air craft construction company were selected to respond to the questionnaire through multiple clustered random sampling. the exploring factor structure via varimax   rotation  in work  related  fondness questionnaire, like the original questionnaire, has achieved three factors which totally verify 71.37 the questionnaire’s variance and all the articles  significantly put  the burden on the factor related to them. the  total  internal consistency coefficient of the scale was assessed 0.88,  first factor 0.94, second factor 0.88 and the third factor 0.80. the confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the data enjoy a suitable fitness; the positive correlation of this scale with job satisfaction questionnaire (brayfieldn & rothe, h 1951)  0.82 and positive affection questionnaire(watson,  tellegen,clark, 1988) 0.59 include  the convergent  validity of the test and its correlation with negative affection(watson,  tellegen,clark, 1988) -0.61 showed its divergent validity. the scale of work related fondness experience can be applied in clinical and research activities.