Abstract

Considering the lack of an organizational commitment measure able to integrate the attitudinal and behavioral perspectives, this study aimed to develop and validate the Behavioral Intentions of Organizational Commitment Scale (BIOCS). BIOCS intends to evaluate the relationship between attitudes and behaviors by studying the behavioral intentions. To better understand the psychometric properties of BIOCS, we selected 1,693 workers in the north, northeast and southern Brazil. Validation procedures adopted by using techniques of both Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory show BIOCS has a unidimensional structure. From 22 initial items, 20 items met the validation criteria. By presenting suitable psychometric parameters, BIOCS is the first measure of organizational commitment developed and validated to assess behavioral intentions.