Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) has been proven a reliable and valid instrument to assess job stress in many countries and among various occupations. In Malaysia, both English and Malay versions of the JCQ have been administered to automotive workers, schoolteachers, and office workers. This study assessed the reliability and validity of the instrument with research laboratory staff in a univer...

background: the effect of poor psychosocial work conditions on health status has widely been discussed in occupational literature. job content questionnaire (jcq) is a widely accepted instrument for evaluation of psychosocial work conditions. objective: to determine the reliability and validity of persian version of jcq. methods: the questionnaire was translated into persian and back translated...

Aims and method To identify correlates between burnout and job stress of care staff at Leros PIKPA Asylum. Forty-nine asylum employees were assessed by Maslach's Burnout Inventory, a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Job Content Questionnaire. Results Emotional exhaustion is related negatively to social support (P = 0.010, r = -0.362). Lack of job achievements i...

BACKGROUND To develop a web-based computer adaptive testing (CAT) application for efficiently collecting data regarding workers' perceptions of job satisfaction, we examined whether a 37-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ-37) could evaluate the job satisfaction of individual employees as a single construct. METHODS The JCQ-37 makes data collection via CAT on the internet easy, viable and fas...

To examine if sense of coherence (SOC) can reduce the adverse effects of job stress on mental health status, self-administered questionnaires were distributed among 740 workers in a manufacturing industry. The questionnaire contained SOC, Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Complete answers were recovered from 466 workers (62.8%), consisting of 387 males ...

This research mainly explores the relationship between psychological empowerment and job performance and their internal mechanisms from psychological empowerment of employees, and discusses job satisfaction and organizational justice multiple mediation effect between psychological empowerment and job performance. The study mainly adopts the methods of questionnaires, including web questionnaire...

The reliability and validity of four selected scales--namely, job control, psychological demands, supervisor support, and coworker support--from the Chinese Version of the Job Content Questionnaire (C-JCL) were studied in 551 male and 648 female workers in Taiwan. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for job control, supervisor support, and coworker support were all above.80. Whereas it was.55 for psy...

Stress is an increasingly important occupational health problem, even in developing countries suc as the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) is a widely used self-administered to measure dimensions of job stress in the workplace. This study describes the preparation of a Persian (Farsi) language version of the questionnaire (P-JCQ). In the first stage, linguistic valid...