Job Satisfaction studies, especially in the field of Organization research, have
traditionally been looked at as a measure of motivation and environmental factors.
Factors of burnout related to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and
personal accomplishment and its different variants have also been related to
diverse conceptualizations of job satisfaction. Recent studies in the fields of
human services have also looked at intrinsic, organizational and salary as factors
of job satisfaction. The present study theorizes a four-factor construct of job
satisfaction for journalists—intrinsic satisfaction, organizational satisfaction,
tangible benefits and efficacy perceptions. Based on an online survey of 216
journalists in three Indian cities, this study provides a structural equation modeling
approach to prove the construct validity of the hypothesized model proposed as a
second order hierarchical construct. Standard goodness of fit indices and factor
loadings are used to prove the construct validity