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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
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