title: The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): an instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell 01854, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Karasek
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brisson
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Houtman
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bongers
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002170:Canada; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D009790:Occupations; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States