Measure of counterproductive workplace behavior: pilot study

High demands and stress on personal resources can lead to resource depletion and changes in attitudes toward work. Such changes can increase individual workers' counterproductivity-tendencies towards deviant behavior in the workplace. Studying such deviant behavior and its predictors is important for organizational psychology and personality psychology. This study is dedicated to the preliminary assessment of the psychometric properties of the Measure of Workplace Deviance (Bennett, Robinson, 2000) for assessment of counterproductive workplace behavior. The sample consisted of 99 employees from various professional groups aged 18 to 59 years, with 74.7% being women. The Measure of Workplace Deviance contains a list of 28 counterproductive work actions, each assessed using a 7-point frequency scale. To evaluate construct validity, methods aimed at assessing levels of professional burnout (Schaufeli et al., 2019); professional motivation (Osin et al., 2017); personality factors of the Big Five (Mishkevich et al., 2022); and "dark" personality traits (Kornienko et al., 2022) were used. Overall, the questionnaire demonstrates an adequate level of psychometric reliability and construct validity. Limitations include its application solely for research purposes, the large number of items, the psychological and semantic similarity of certain statements, and the anonymous administration of the questionnaire.