Fransson, EI;
Nyberg, ST;
Heikkilä, K;
Alfredsson, L;
Bacquer, DED;
Batty, GD;
Bonenfant, S;
... Kivimäki, M; + view all
(2012)
Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium.
BMC Public Health
, 12
, Article 62. 10.1186/1471-2458-12-62.
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Abstract
Job strain (i.e., high job demands combined with low job control) is a frequently used indicator of harmful work stress, but studies have often used partial versions of the complete multi-item job demands and control scales. Understanding whether the different instruments assess the same underlying concepts has crucial implications for the interpretation of findings across studies, harmonisation of multi-cohort data for pooled analyses, and design of future studies. As part of the 'IPD-Work' (Individual-participant-data meta-analysis in working populations) consortium, we compared different versions of the demands and control scales available in 17 European cohort studies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-62 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-62 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Fransson et al; BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3328260 |
| Keywords: | Cohort Studies, Europe, Humans, Internal-External Control, Occupational Exposure, Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1337103 |
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