BACKGROUND Little is known about cross-language measurement equivalence of the job content questionnaire (JCQ) PURPOSE: The purposes of this study were to assess the extent of cross-language differential item functioning (DIF) of the 27 JCQ items in six languages (French, Dutch, Belgian-French, Belgian-Dutch (Flemish), Italian, and Swedish) from six European research centers and to test whether...

Job stress has now become one of the most significant health and safety issues in the workplace and one of the least understood areas of organizational cost. A cross-sectional study to assess job strain and dissatisfaction in lecturers of the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) was undertaken between August 2001 and May 2002. The original English version of the Job Conte...

background the purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (qwl) among hospital employees in iran. additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees’ qwl. it also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees’ qwl and their intention to leave the organisation. methods a survey study was conducted based on a sample ...

BACKGROUND Faced with the challenge of population aging, a prolonged working life is increasingly important in today's society. Maintaining work ability of employees is one of the effective ways to cope with the challenges to sustainability of the workforce presented by population aging. Researchers have shown ongoing interest in exploring the determinants of restricted work ability. The aim of...

BACKGROUND In recent years, job stress has been cited as a risk factor for some diseases. OBJECTIVES Given the importance of this subject, we established a new model for classifying job stress among Iranian male staff using path analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was done on male staff in Tehran, Iran, 2013. The participants in the study were selected using a proport...

BACKGROUND In recent years, much attention has been paid to occupational stress, but relatively little or no research has been conducted on the influence of knowledge, attitude, and practice of radiation protection (RP-KAP) on job stress among radiation workers. OBJECTIVES This study aims to assess job stress among health care workers in Iran who are occupationally exposed to radiation in ord...

the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between personality extraversion-introversion with job satisfaction in disabled employees. this  was a descriptive-analytical study of correlation type. the target population included all of the disabled employed in the offices of aligudarz county who were 100 people, which were selected by census method, and all of them completed the questio...

job satisfaction is a positive or pleasant emotional state resulting from a person’s appreciation of his/her own job or experience. the study purpose was to model job satisfaction for teachers working in agricultural institutes within mazandaran province of iran. the study used a descriptive-correlative design . the statistical population (including all instructors working for agricultural inst...

The aim was to explore long-term changes in the perception of job characteristics--based on the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ)--in view of the changing labor market in Western societies. A total number of 2,821 workers from nine companies were involved in the longitudinal Belstress-project. Data were gathered on two occasions with a mean time interval of 6.6 yr. At both times, participants com...