Validity and Reliability of Malay Version of the Job Content Questionnaire among Public Hospital Female Nurses in Malaysia

Amin, Nur Azma; Quek, Kia Fatt; Oxley, Jennifer Anne; Noah, Ramin; Nordin, Rusli Bin

doi:10.15171/ijoem.2015.632

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“…The psychological job demands scale had an unacceptable level of internal consistency (0.48). The psychological job demands scale, especially the one with five questions, tends to have borderline alpha values, but there are some studies that show completely inadequate values (Amin, Quek, Oxley, Noah, & Nordin, 2015;Araújo, & Karasek, 2008;Hadi, Naing, Daud, & Nordin, 2006;Li et al, 2004;Mausner-Dorsch, & Eaton, 2000;Phakthongsuk, & Apakupakul, 2008). Karasek et al (1998) reviewed six studies from America, Europe and Asia and concluded that, indeed, the psychological job demands scale, with five questions, showed poor internal consistency.…”

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Assessing stress at work: The Portuguese version of the Job Content Questionnaire

Boas¹,

Cerqueira²

2017

Aval. psicol.

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The aim of this paper was to study one of the most important tools for assessing the psychosocial factors underlying stress at work. The study of the Portuguese version of the Karasek's Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) also intends to contribute to the discussion about the theoretical model (the division of the decision latitude in one or two dimensions) and the scale itself (the adequacy of the items from the Psychological Job Demand Scale). Construct validity of the questionnaire was examined using an exploratory factor analysis (maximum likelihood with promax rotation). After deleting three items, the analysis found a four-factor model. The reliability was estimated with Cronbach's alpha, indicating appropriate internal consistency for three scales and problems for psychological job demands. The findings suggest that the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the JCQ are satisfactory, although further improvement is needed for the psychological job demands scale. The results do not support the theoretical decision of dividing the decision latitude scale into two dimensions. Keywords: Job Content Questionnaire; work stress; psychosocial work factors; organizational risk factors; Portugal. RESUMO -Avaliação do estresse no trabalho: a versão portuguesa do Job Content QuestionnaireO objetivo deste trabalho foi averiguar uma das ferramentas mais importantes para avaliar os fatores psicossociais e organizacionais subjacentes ao estresse no trabalho. O estudo da versão portuguesa do Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), de Karasek, visa também contribuir para a discussão sobre a divisão da latitude de decisão em uma ou duas dimensões e sobre a adequação dos itens da escala exigências psicológicas do trabalho. A validade de construto foi avaliada por meio da análise fatorial exploratória, pelo método máxima probabilidade, com rotação promax. Depois de retirados três itens, foi encontrado um modelo de quatro fatores. O alfa de Cronbach mostrou que apenas a escala exigências psicológicas apresentava problemas de consistência interna. Os resultados sugerem que as propriedades psicométricas da versão portuguesa do JCQ são satisfatórias, embora seja ainda necessário melhorar a escala de exigências psicológicas. Os resultados não apoiam a decisão teórica de dividir a latitude em duas dimensões. Palavras-chave: Job Content Questionnaire; estresse no trabalho; fatores psicossociais do trabalho; fatores organizacionais de risco; Portugal. RESUMEN -Evaluación del estrés laboral: versión portuguesa del Job Content QuestionnaireEl objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de una de las herramientas más importantes para evaluar los factores psicosociales y organizacionales subyacentes al estrés en el trabajo. El estudio de la versión portuguesa del Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) de Karasek tiene también por finalidad contribuir a la discusión sobre la división de la latitud de decisión en una o dos dimensiones y sobre la adecuación de los ítems de la escala demanda psicológica del trabajo. La validez de constructo del cuesti...

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Assessing stress at work: The Portuguese version of the Job Content Questionnaire

Boas¹,

Cerqueira²

2017

Aval. psicol.

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“…Decision authority was assessed using three Malay‐translated items adapted from the decision authority subscale of the Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek et al ., ). Good reliability and validity has been shown in Malaysian work setting (Amin, Quek, Oxley, Noah, & Nordin, ; Edimansyah, Rusli, Naing, & Mazalisah, ). An example item is as follows: ‘On my job, I have very little freedom to decide how I do my work’.…”

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Psychosocial safety climate as a moderator of the moderators: Contextualizing JDR models and emotional demands effects

Loh

Idris

Dollard

et al. 2018

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is a facet‐specific aspect of organizational climate that pertains to employees’ psychological health. We sought to deepen our understanding of how and when resources function by considering the role of PSC as a contextual factor for job demands‐resources model. We explained this using two different mechanisms – PSC as a resource passageway (i.e., channelling, supplying, bolstering, complementing, compensating resources) or PSC as a safety signal (i.e., enabling resource use) effect. Using longitudinal data from 429 Malaysian health care workers from 53 teams and hierarchical linear modelling (HLM), we found team PSC was a stronger moderator of emotional demands than control or rewards on psychological health problems (emotional exhaustion and somatic symptoms), after controlling for the baseline outcomes. A three‐way interaction of team PSC at Time 1 with demands and resources (rewards only) at Time 2 showed that PSC is able to moderate the moderation relationship of demands and resources. Specifically, PSC, as a resource passageway, is providing a range of resources, that likely to compensate and complement low rewards. Hence, when both PSC and rewards were low, emotional demands had the strongest effect on psychological health. This result is robust as it was validated using HLM and split samples of PSC at the upper level. Given the important contextual role of PSC as a ‘moderator of the moderators’, building PSC should be the focus of workplace interventions to protect the psychological health of workers. Practitioner points Psychosocial safety climate may compensate for job resources, particularly rewards in an organization to protect workers’ psychological health. Psychosocial safety climate buffers the detrimental effect of emotional demands on workers’ psychological health better than rewards and control.

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“…Validation studies for the JCQ in some countries, such as Malaysia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, China, and Spain, were conducted with nurses as study participants. [19][20][21][22] Korean and Greek versions were developed for hospital medical staff, but not restricted to nurses. 23,24 While JCQ has been widely used internationally in medical settings, research using JCQ is still limited LMICs in South-East Asia, especially low-and lower middle-income countries.…”

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Validation of the Job Content Questionnaire among hospital nurses in Vietnam

Sasaki

Imamura

Tran

et al. 2019

Journal of Occupational Health

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Validity and Reliability of Malay Version of the Job Content Questionnaire among Public Hospital Female Nurses in Malaysia

Abstract: The M-JCQ is a reliable and valid instrument to measure psychosocial and physical stressors in the workplace of public hospital nurses in Malaysia.

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Assessing stress at work: The Portuguese version of the Job Content Questionnaire

Assessing stress at work: The Portuguese version of the Job Content Questionnaire

Psychosocial safety climate as a moderator of the moderators: Contextualizing JDR models and emotional demands effects

Validation of the Job Content Questionnaire among hospital nurses in Vietnam

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