Activity 6.3: What is Your Attitude Toward Money?

The source of this scale is: Adapted from J.A. Roberts and C.J. Sepulveda, "Demographics and Money Attitudes: A Test of Yamauchi and Templer's (1982) Money Attitude Scale in Mexico," Personality and Individual Differences, 27 (July 1999), pp. 19-35; K. Yamauchi and D. Templer, "The Development of a Money Attitudes Scale," Journal of Personality Assessment, 46 (1982), pp. 522-528.

Money is a fundamental part of the employment relationship, but it is more than just an economic medium of exchange. Money affects our needs, our emotions, and our self-perception. People hold a variety of attitudes towards money. One set of attitudes, known as the "money ethic", is measured in this self-assessment.
     Read each statement in this money attitudes scale and indicate the extent to which you personally agree or disagree with the statement.