Reliability and validity of Job Content Questionnaire in Chinese petrochemical employees.
To evaluate psychometric properties the Chinese (mainland) version of the 30-item Job Content Questionnaire was administered to 889 employees in 4 industries of PetroChina. A retest at 3 months with 296 randomly chosen employees showed reliabilities ranged from .76 to .93. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the 8 dimensions ranged from .43 to .88, indicating that the Job Insecurity subscale had low internal consistency. Exploratory factor analysis showed 8 meaningful factors corresponding to the 8 theoretical dimensions of this questionnaire. This version has variable a but suitable retest to be a reliable and valid measure of job strain, applicable to the Chinese industrial working population of PetroChina.
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Wei
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Occupational and Environmental Department, Health Science Centre, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Zhang
Jun-Quan
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Sun
Jing
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Tan
Pei-Fang
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Wang
Sheng
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D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D002617:Chemical Industry; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010578:Petroleum; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
D010578:Petroleum