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In this study, attempted to validity and reliability of Wood (1986) job satisfaction questionnaire be examined. Statistical population of the study was total of sport federations (46 sport federations), that have 703 expert. And sample population composed of 210experts. The Result of Principal ComponentsAnalysis was leads toExtraction of 4 factors, Satisfaction from information, Satisfaction from variety, Satisfaction from closure, and Satisfaction from pay that in sum explained %60.37 of total variance of instrument. Results from confirmatory factor analysis indicatethat the model of job satisfaction questionnaire has a good fitness, and 4 factors approved. Cronbach's alpha indicatesthat job satisfaction questionnaire has an appropriate reliability. Respect to verification of Psychometric properties of gob satisfaction instrument, and identifies the factors of it used to factor analysis, it can be stated research tool, isgood instrument to measure job satisfaction in the sports federation.

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