Reliability and Validity of the Work-Related Strain Inventory among Health Professionals

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Revicki ◽  
Harold J. May ◽  
Theodore W. Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Work Related

Validatie van de Nederlandstalige Core Self-evaluations vragenlijst

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene E. de Pater ◽  
Sonja Schinkel ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Total N ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Convergent And Divergent Validity ◽  
Core Self

Validation of the Dutch Core Self-evaluations Scale Validation of the Dutch Core Self-evaluations Scale I.E. de Pater, S. Schinkel & B.A. Nijstad, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 20, maart 2007, nr. 1, pp. 82-100 In this article we investigated the reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the Core Self-evaluations scale (CSES, Judge, Erez, Bono & Thoresen, 2003). Research into the English version has shown that CSE is a valid construct, consistently correlating with important work related criteria such as work satisfaction and work performance. Because of the relevance of these findings, we developed a Dutch version of this scale (NCSES). Results from four different studies (total N = 1389) showed that the NCSES is internally consistent, has a high test-retest reliability and has the predicted factor structure. Additionally, the convergent and divergent validity of the NCSES are high, and the NCSES correlates with important work outcomes, such job characteristics, job performance, and affective outcomes. It can be concluded that the NCSES is a valuable and effective instrument for applied psychological research.

scholarly journals Assessment of workplace bullying: reliability and validity of an Arabic version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)

BMJ Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e024009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisrine N Makarem ◽  
Lucy R Tavitian-Elmadjian ◽  
Dayana Brome ◽  
Ghassan N Hamadeh ◽  
Ståle Einarsen
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Negative Acts

IntroductionInterest in workplace bullying has been steadily growing since the 1990s, focusing on understanding its driving factors, prevalence rates in different occupations and countries, its consequences, as well as the characteristics of the typical bully and victim. Currently, the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R) is the most frequently used questionnaire to assess workplace bullying. Studies in the Arab world are scarce and to date the NAQ-R has not been validated in Arabic, the official or co-official language in around 25 countries in the Middle East and Asia. The aim of this study was therefore to develop an Arabic version of NAQ-R.Materials and methods447 participants aged 18–70 years were recruited through convenient sampling. Exclusion criteria were illiteracy and employment for less than 6 months. Participants were recruited from shops, banks, travel agencies and restaurants in an area in central Beirut around a tertiary care medical centre.A two-stage process was employed to translate the original version of NAQ-R to Arabic. This translated version along with validated Arabic versions of the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory II were distributed to participants.ResultsA 14-item two-factor NAQ-R, with subscales of person-related and work-related bullying, was supported. Reliability coefficients for total and subscale scores of the NAQ-R ranged from 0.63 to 0.90. The Arabic NAQ-R had good concurrent validity as indicated by significant correlations with depression and satisfaction with life (p< 0.05).ConclusionNAQ-R was translated to Arabic and adapted. The results revealed acceptable levels of reliability and construct validity. As for the underlying factor structure, it needs to be further supported.

scholarly journals Corona Virus (COVID – 19)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
David Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Current Activity ◽  
Overseas Travel ◽  
The Government

It is difficult while writing an editorial, at this time, to ignore the extensive impact of the Corona virus (COVID-19) and it is probably important for us, as health professionals to give it some considered thought, outside the immediacy of current activity. I say this as someone recently returned from work related overseas travel, with my travel not meeting the government-imposed return deadline by some seven hours. This required my quarantine and/or isolation for some two weeks. After my first week of exclusion from most of my family, friends and working remotely and online it seems that the rest of Australia has caught up with my circumstance, many stood down from work, many businesses closed, a massive effort by the health system and economic rescue or support packages being implemented by government. It seems that I will have little opportunity to relax and celebrate with others at the end of this week.....

scholarly journals Reliability and Validity of Survey Instruments to Measure Work-Related Fatigue in the Emergency Medical Services Setting: A Systematic Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Daniel Patterson ◽  
Matthew D. Weaver ◽  
Anthony Fabio ◽  
Ellen M. Teasley ◽  
Megan L. Renn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Emergency Medical Services ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Emergency Medical ◽  
Survey Instruments

Individualizing the burnout problem: Health professionals’ discourses of burnout and recovery in the context of rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
pp. 136345932110630
Author(s):  
Maija Korhonen ◽  
Katri Komulainen
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Disease Status ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Context Specific

This discourse analytical study explores how health professionals (HPs) construct burnout as a form of mental distress in the context of Finnish burnout rehabilitation framed with a particular rehabilitation ethos. Burnout is a fuzzy concept and lacks a disease status. Therefore, it calls for context-specific definition and justification. By highlighting the socially and interactionally produced character of categories of mental distress, the study investigates the kinds of discourses HPs use to formulate “the problem” and its solutions, and how people dealing with burnout are categorized in these discourses. The data consists of field notes from the observation of group discussion sessions in two 1-year burnout rehabilitation courses. As a result of the analysis, five partly overlapping discourses were identified: psychological, evolutionary, healthy lifestyle, biomedical, and welfare. Within these discourses, people who experience burnout were categorized as over-conscientious employees, “good girls,” “primitive people,” self-responsible rehabilitees, patients, and (aging) employees with social and legal rights. Burnout rehabilitation and HPs’ views reproduce a cultural and clinical discourse around burnout in which work-related problems are treated as individual-level problems and individuals are responsibilized for the management of mental distress. Based on the results, it is concluded that the hybrid type of interventions that attempt to influence both individual- and work-related problems behind burnout would help to prevent people dealing with burnout from being over-responsibilized for solving problems at the workplace.

Development of the Korean Global Physical Activity Questionnaire: reliability and validity study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junga Lee ◽  
Choae Lee ◽  
Jihee Min ◽  
Dong-Woo Kang ◽  
Ji-Young Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Cohen’S Kappa ◽  
Physical Activity Questionnaire ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Cohen's Kappa ◽  
Global Physical Activity Questionnaire ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Activity Questionnaire

The goal of this study was to develop a Korean version of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (K-GPAQ) and to examine its reliability and validity. The English version of the GPAQ was translated to the Korean language (K-GPAQ) via forward–backward translation. Reliability of the K-GPAQ was evaluated using a one-week interval test–retest method with 115 individuals. Criterion-related validity of the K-GPAQ was examined with 199 participants using accelerometers. Cohen’s kappa and Spearman’s correlation coefficients were used to measure test–retest reliability and validity, respectively. A Bland–Altman analysis was used to assess agreement between physical activity (PA) levels measured via K-GPAQ and the accelerometer. Coefficients for the reliability of the K-GPAQ showed moderate agreement for recreational PA and slight agreement for work-related PA (Cohen’s kappa: 0.60–0.67 for recreational PA and 0.30–0.38 for work-related PA and Spearman’s rho: 0.27–0.47 for work-related PA and 0.53–0.70 for recreational PA). Criterion validity of the total amount of PA, as measured by the K-GPAQ and the accelerometer, showed a weak but significant correlation ( r = 0.34, p < 0.01). The K-GPAQ is a reliable and valid questionnaire to measure PA although K-GPAQ overestimated PA levels.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review for Computer Based Observational Techniques for Assessing Exposure to Risk Factors for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.20) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Syahrul Aziana Abdul Rahman ◽  
Mohd Nasrull Abdol Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Observer Reliability ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Observational Techniques

The objective of this review are to systematically examine the existing techniques of computer based observational method for assessing Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and analysed them to the needs of different potential users. Articles related are searched and collected from scientific database starting from 1977 to 2016. Seven methods are identified for computer based observational techniques and from these methods, only three methods have been evaluated as the intra-observer reliability and five methods are evaluated as inter-observer reliability where the average results are moderate to good agreement. For concurrent validity, five methods have been evaluated with moderate agreement. Some of the risk factors that related with WMSDs are; physical, psychosocial, work organization and individual factors. In addition, these existing techniques did not fulfil the criteria of reliability and validity testing during the development of these methods.  

Is there a buffering effect of flexibility for job attitudes and work-related strain under conditions of high job insecurity and regional unemployment rate?

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Otto ◽  
Anja Hoffmann-Biencourt ◽  
Gisela Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Job Attitudes ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Buffering Effect ◽  
Regional Unemployment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Personality Attribute ◽  
Regional Unemployment Rate

This article explores the relationships of job insecurity and regional unemployment rate with job attitudes and work-related strain. The authors considered the personality attribute flexibility as a potential moderator. Their results revealed job insecurity to be negatively associated with job involvement and career satisfaction and positively with readiness to make concessions and strain. Moreover, with an increasing level of subjective (qualitative) job insecurity, individuals low in flexibility reported lower career satisfaction. In contrast, where objective job insecurity (unemployment rate) was high, these low flexibility participants showed higher career satisfaction. They were also more ready to make concessions and more involved with their job than those high in flexibility. Finally, the study found the proposed buffering effect, as those high in flexibility experienced less health impairment when perceived (quantitative) job insecurity and regional unemployment rate were high. Strategies of coping with uncertainty as well as options regarding strengthening flexibility are discussed.

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