A psychometric evaluation of a Dutch version of the Job Content Questionnaire and of a short direct questioning procedure |
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| Authors: | Gert Storms Sarah Casaer Rein De Wit Omer Van Den Bergh Guido Moens |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Research Center on Work , Organisational, and Personnel Psychology (WOPP) , K. U. Leuven, Belgium Hans.Dewitte@psy.kuleuven.be;3. Department of Social Economics , Research Consortium for the Study of the Transition between Education and Labour Market (SONAR), Ghent University , Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Using the demand-control-support perspective on job stress, a Dutch translation of an adapted version of the Job Content Questionnaire (AJCQ) was administered to a large population ( N = 3638) of Flemish workers in a variety of jobs, together with the General Health Questionnaire, and a negative affectivity scale. Overall, the AJCQ was shown to be a solid measurement instrument as indicated by several estimated reliability indices and validity of the subscales. A factor analysis largely reproduced the a priori structure of the AJCQ. A short 10-item direct questioning procedure was constructed to measure the 10 subscales of the AJCQ and the results of this procedure were compared with the AJCQ in a subsample ( N = 660). The correlations with six criterion variables showed that single questions were equally predictive than the much longer version of the AJCQ. |
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| Keywords: | Content Questionnaire Stress Negative Affectivity |
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