title: Measuring psychosocial work quality and health: development of health care measures of measurement.
abstract: Demands on workload and work efficiency have increased because of ongoing global changes in health care organizations. Assessing and evaluating effects of changes on organizational and individual well-being require valid and reliable methods. Questionnaires from 3 large health care studies were used to develop instruments for work quality and health. Variable fields of work quality, health and well-being, and modifying factors were factor analyzed with replicated structures in new samples, including 6 factors of work quality, 5 health factors, and 2 modifying factors. All except 2 factors had high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = .69-.84) and low factor intercorrelations within areas. Social climate (but not individual resources) had, according to our model, a modifying effect on the work-health interaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stress Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: I L
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Petterson
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Arnetz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D012307:Risk Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D013548:Sweden; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*