Protestant Work Ethic Scale Responses

Questions, answers, and metadata collected from 1350 Protestant Work Ethic Scales. The data was hosted on OpenPsychometrics.org a nonprofit effort to educate the public about psychology and to collect data for psychological research. Their notes on the data collected in the codebook.txt

The Protestant Work Ethic is a concept coined by the sociologist Max Weber in 1905. He hypothesized that Northern European countries were more economically productive than Southern European ones because their Protestantism promoted the values of labor and discipline, in contrast with Catholicism which valued ceremony and confession. The PWE was originally conceived as a property of culture, but in the 1960s some psychologists tried to study it on an individual level. The Protestant Work Ethic Scale was published in 1971 by Herbert Mirels and James Garret for use in this line of research.