The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): An Instrument for Internationally Comparative Assessments of Psychosocial Job Characteristics

Part I discusses the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), designed to measure scales assessing psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, physical demands, and job insecurity. Part II describes the reliability of the JCQ scales in a cross-national context using 10,288 men and 6,313 women...

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Published in:Journal of occupational health psychology 1998-10, Vol.3 (4), p.322-355
Main Authors: Karasek, Robert, Brisson, Chantal, Kawakami, Norito, Houtman, Irene, Bongers, Paulien, Amick, Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Canada
Cross Cultural Differences
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Employment
Female
Human
Humans
Japan
Job Characteristics
Male
Middle Aged
Netherlands
Occupations
Psychosocial Factors
Questionnaires
Social Support
Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Test Construction
United States
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Summary:Part I discusses the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), designed to measure scales assessing psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, physical demands, and job insecurity. Part II describes the reliability of the JCQ scales in a cross-national context using 10,288 men and 6,313 women from 6 studies conducted in 4 countries. Substantial similarity in means, standard deviations, and correlations among the scales, and in correlations between scales and demographic variables, is found for both men and women in all studies. Reliability is good for most scales. Results suggest that psychological job characteristics are more similar across national boundaries than across occupations.
ISSN:1076-8998
1939-1307
DOI:10.1037/1076-8998.3.4.322