Die Job-Angst-Skala (JAS). Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung arbeitsplatzbezogener Ängste

Muschalla, Beate; Olbrich, Dieter

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“…Work-related anxieties were assessed with the 70-item self-rating JAS [20,21], which covers 5 main dimensions: (1) Stimulus-related anxieties and avoidance behavior include anticipatory anxieties with feelings of strain when being at the workplace or in anticipation of situations or events at the workplace, phobic avoidance of work situations, conditioned or posttraumatic anxiety, and global feelings of anxiety toward the workplace. (2) Social anxieties include interactional anxiety, i.e.…”

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“…Participants filled in a self-rating questionnaire on job-related problems (Job Anxiety Scale, JAS) [20,21] and on general psychosomatic symptoms (Symptom Checklist, SCL-90-R,) [22] shortly after admission to the hospital (t1), at discharge (t2) and 6 months later (follow-up, t3). Diagnoses were assessed with the structured diagnostic MINI interview based on the criteria of DSM-IV [23].…”

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Specific Job Anxiety in Comparison to General Psychosomatic Symptoms at Admission, Discharge and Six Months after Psychosomatic Inpatient Treatment

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2012

Psychopathology

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Objective: Job anxiety is a severe problem in many patients with chronic mental disorders, as it usually results in specific participation problems in the workplace and long-term sick leave. The aim of this study was to explore the development of sick leave in dependence on general psychosomatic complaints and job anxiety from admission to a psychosomatic inpatient treatment until 6 months after discharge. Method: A convenience sample of 91 patients, suffering from multiple mental disorders, filled in self-rating questionnaires on job anxiety (Job Anxiety Scale) and on general psychosomatic symptom load (Symptom Checklist-90-Revised) at the beginning, the end, and 6 months after discharge from an inpatient psychosomatic treatment. Additionally, sick leave status and employment status were assessed before and 6 months after the treatment. Results: 15.4% of 91 patients were on sick leave before inpatient treatment and at follow-up (SS group), 20.9% were fit for work at intake and follow-up (FF group), 6.6% were fit for work initially and on sick leave later (FS group), and 57.1% on sick leave first and working at follow-up (SF group). In regard to general psychosomatic complaints, there were initially high scores on the SCL, a marked reduction during inpatient treatment, and a bouncing back to initial levels at follow-up for all 4 patient groups. SS and FS patients showed the highest scores at intake and follow-up. Concerning job anxiety, SS patients had the highest scores at all three assessments, while FF patients had significantly lower scores, with only low variation between assessments. SF patients started with comparatively high scores of job anxiety, which even increased before reentering work, but decreased in the follow-up period when they were confronted with work again. FS patients started low (like the FF patients) at intake, reduced their job anxiety further till discharge, but increased to higher scores at follow-up. Conclusions: General psychosomatic symptom load and job anxiety show a different course during treatment and are differently related to sick leave. General psychosomatic symptom load can be understood as a measure of the degree of the chronic illness status, whereas job anxiety reflects specific additional context-related problems, i.e. problems with work. A core finding is that job anxiety is related to work avoidance, but work exposure may reduce job anxiety. This has direct consequences for putting patients on sick leave or not.

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Specific Job Anxiety in Comparison to General Psychosomatic Symptoms at Admission, Discharge and Six Months after Psychosomatic Inpatient Treatment

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2012

Psychopathology

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“…The same restriction has been applied to the different questionnaires designed to assess very specific subtypes of anxiety (as opposed to state anxiety defined as a general/uniform construct), as the Smith Somatic Stress Symptoms Scale-State (SSSSS-S; Smith, 1990), the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory (CSAI-2; Martens, Vealey, & Burton, 1990), the Job Anxiety Scale (JAS; Linden, Muschalla, & Olbrich, 2008), the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS, Corah, 1969) or similar more specific instruments. used the STAI, 70 the VAS, 40 the POMS and 33 the PANAS, either in isolation or in combination with another measure.…”

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Transient state-dependent fluctuations in anxiety measured using STAI, POMS, PANAS or VAS: a comparative review

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2012

Anxiety, Stress & Coping

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State anxiety: construct and measuresThe compelling observation that specific unpleasant emotional conditions, characterized by short-lived feelings of tension or apprehension, are actually prone to fluctuations depending on external contingencies in the environment was first put forward by Cattell (1966;Cattell & Scheirer, 1958& 1963 in the second half of the last century, when he proposed the distinction between state anxiety and a more stable personality trait (referred to as trait anxiety), the latter being related to the tendency to experience feelings of tension and worrisome thoughts. Since this pioneering work, although no consensus has been reached about the true nature of state anxiety as a psychological or physiological construct, this concept has been further elaborated and refined by Spielberger (1966Spielberger ( & 1976 at a theoretical level, and it has been implicated in a myriad of empirical studies that have helped delineate and better characterize the numerous psychological reactions to stressors in humans (e.g., , or the physiological activations of the nervous system triggered by external or internal emotional stimuli (e.g., Swartzman, Edelberg, & Kemman, 1990;de Rooij, Schene, Phillips, & Roseboom, 2010). Levels of trait anxiety are considered crucial for people's successful adaptation to the environment, and have been shown to influence a multitude of core psychological components, including well-being and mental health (e.g., Duncko, Makatsori, Fickova, Selco, & Jezova, 2006;Bruk-Lee, Khoury, Nixon, Goh, & Spector, 2009). Consequently, good instruments for measuring stable inter-individual differences in anxiety proneness, considered as a personality trait, have been developed in the affective sciences literature (e.g., Cattel & Scheirer, 1963;Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970), with the underlying idea that such trait is long lasting and mostly stable across time and situations. At the same time, a 4 growing number of studies suggested that trait characteristics of anxiety not always accurately predicted psychological responses in specific situations (e.g., , nor did they always show a straightforward relationship with the magnitude of anxiety fluctuations over time in response to external events (see Spielberger, 1983;. In these cases, a less stable measure of anxiety, able to capture these short-lived variations in the state of the individual would be desirable.In order to appropriately meet these theoretical and empirical considerations, several instruments have been developed over the years, providing alternative instruments for measuring state-dependent fluctuations in anxiety, or more broadly, in affect or mood. for the POMS). Moreover, systematically comparing the psychometric properties of each measure seems rather difficult, since they have to be retrieved from various and sometimes scattered sources, such as the manuals and a set of psychometric papers addressing different combinations of instruments, with sometimes a lack of consistency across analysis techniques, sample...

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“…It contains 13 items. It has been extracted from the Job Anxiety Scale, 33,34 which covers further workplace anxiety dimensions apart from phobia. The WPS is presented to patients as "questionnaire on workplace problems" that examines "behavior, thoughts, and feelings that can occur in relation to the workplace."…”

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Workplace Phobia, Workplace Problems, and Work Ability among Primary Care Patients with Chronic Mental Disorders

Muschalla

Lindén

2014

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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Purpose: Work-related anxieties are frequent and have a negative effect on the occupational performance of patients and absence due to sickness. Most important is workplace phobia, that is, panic when approaching or even thinking of the workplace. This study is the first to estimate the prevalence of workplace phobia among primary care patients suffering from chronic mental disorders and to describe which illness-related or workplace-specific context factors are associated with workplace phobia.Methods: A convenience sample of 288 primary care patients with chronic mental disorders (70% women) seen by 40 primary care clinicians in Germany were assessed using a standardized diagnostic interview about mental disorders and workplace problems. Workplace phobia was assessed by the Workplace Phobia Scale and a structured Diagnostic and Statical Manual of Mental Disorders-based diagnostic interview. In addition, capacity and participation restrictions, illness severity, and sick leave were assessed.Results: Workplace phobia was found in 10% of patients with chronic mental disorders, that is, approximately about 3% of all general practice patients. Patients with workplace phobia had longer durations of sick leave than patients without workplace phobia and were impaired to a higher degree in work-relevant capacities. They also had a higher degree of restrictions in participation in other areas of life.Conclusions: Workplace phobia seems to be a frequent problem in primary care. It may behoove primary care clinicians to consider workplace-related anxiety, including phobia, particularly when patients ask for a work excuse for nonspecific somatic complaints. (J Am Board Fam Med 2014;27: 486 -494.)

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Die Job-Angst-Skala (JAS). Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung arbeitsplatzbezogener Ängste

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Specific Job Anxiety in Comparison to General Psychosomatic Symptoms at Admission, Discharge and Six Months after Psychosomatic Inpatient Treatment

Specific Job Anxiety in Comparison to General Psychosomatic Symptoms at Admission, Discharge and Six Months after Psychosomatic Inpatient Treatment

Transient state-dependent fluctuations in anxiety measured using STAI, POMS, PANAS or VAS: a comparative review

Workplace Phobia, Workplace Problems, and Work Ability among Primary Care Patients with Chronic Mental Disorders

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