Measuring Effort–Reward Imbalance in School Settings: A Novel Approach and Its Association With Self-Rated Health

Li, Jian; Li, Shang; Wang, Tao; Siegrist, Johannes

doi:10.2188/jea.je20090057

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“…The validity of ERI-SF was assessed by testing the association between the subscale of ERI-SF and perceived health status and job strain. With regard to poor health status, there is convincing evidence of adverse health effects on ERI from previous studies (Li, Loerbroks, Shang, et al, 2012;Li, Shang, Wang, & Siegrist, 2010). The current study found significant associations between ERI and job strain, consistent with an earlier study (Tsutsumi, Kayaba, Theorell, & Siegrist, 2001).…”

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Psychometric Testing of the Effort-Reward Imbalance–Short Form Among Blue-Collar Workers Employed in Small Industrial Settings in Korea

Hwang

Hong

Kang

2018

Workplace Health Saf

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The Effort Reward Imbalance tool is a measure of psychosocial work characteristics used to identify workrelated stress. The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Korean version of the effort-reward imbalance-short form (ERI-SF) in industrial workers. The Korean version of ERI-SF was tested among 250 blue-collar workers. The reliability, content validity, and construct validity with confirmatory factor analysis, as well as interaction terms were analyzed. Reliability assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficients were satisfactory for all three subscales: effort 0.75, reward 0.74, and overcommitment 0.72. Confirmatory factor analysis showed an acceptable model fit with the three component theoretical structure (root mean square error of approximation = 0.07, comparative fit index = 0.84). Content validity was assessed with respect to a measure of perceived health. In addition, a significant synergistic interaction of ERI and over-commitment on job strain was found. In conclusion, the ERI-SF demonstrated good psychometric properties with Korean industrial workers. The ERI-SF is ideal for examining work-related stress in the workplace by occupational health professionals. This shorter version makes it easier to administer and score in the occupational health setting.

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confidence: 91%

Psychometric Testing of the Effort-Reward Imbalance–Short Form Among Blue-Collar Workers Employed in Small Industrial Settings in Korea

Hwang

Hong

Kang

2018

Workplace Health Saf

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“…() reported in a longitudinal study that the prevalence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder tends to decrease with age within the 9‐ to 16‐year‐old age bracket (from 2.2 to 0.3%), whereas evidence for depressive disorder increases (from 0.5 to 3.1%). On the other hand, we found that the SRH scores were consistent in the fifth and eighth graders across gender and were higher in eighth‐grade boys than in eighth‐grade girls; this is consistent with previous reports (Breidablik et al ., ; Li et al ., ).…”

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“…Self-rated health was used in some epidemiological studies as an indicator of both health outcomes and health-related quality of life (Zullig et al, 2005). Lifestyle, school-related stress, and environments have been found to affect SRH ratings among adolescents (Karademas et al, 2008;Li et al, 2010). Self-rated health was also a predictor of problematic behaviors in areas such as educational attainment (Haas & Fosse, 2008;Jackson, 2009), bullying (Gobina et al, 2008), and alcohol and tobacco habits (Johnson & Richter, 2002).…”

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Psychosocial functioning and self‐rated health in Japanese school‐aged children: A cross‐sectional study

Okuda

Sekiya

Okuda³

et al. 2012

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Emotional and behavioral disorders in children are school-health concerns; however, Japanese screening tools for such disorders are not yet available. We examined the association between psychosocial functioning as measured by the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) and self-rated health within school settings. A cross-sectional study was conducted for 2513 fifth and eighth graders from all of the primary and secondary schools in Shunan City, Japan. The Japanese PSC had high internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.90) and a factor structure similar to that of the English PSC. When the cut-off values were set to ≥ 28 and ≥ 17, 4-9% and 20-39% of our respondents, respectively, reported high PSC scores. A multiple ordinal logistic regression analysis showed that the odds ratio of a positive PSC score (≥ 28) for poorer self-rated health among ratings of "very good," "good," "fair," and "poor" was 3.5 (95% confidence interval = 2.6-4.8). There was a clear association between psychosocial dysfunction identified by a PSC score ≥ 28 and poor self-rated health. We offer directions for further research on appropriate PSC cut-off values with Japanese samples.

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“…Stress scales are usually validated by showing a strong association between the stress index and self-rated health (Li et al, 2010;Niedhammer et al, 2004;Siegrist et al, 2008). The explanatory power of the SSS has also been examined for subjective health status.…”

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The Standard Stress Scale (SSS): Measuring Stress in the Life Course

Groß

Seebaß²

2016

Methodological Issues of Longitudinal Surveys

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This contribution presents the Standard Stress Scale (SSS), a new scale that has been specially developed to meet the requirements of multicohort panel studies-such as the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)-that refer to the whole life course. Accordingly, the SSS is consistently applicable for different age groups from 14 years old onwards and is also suitable for a wide range of people, irrespective of their stage in life and employment situation. The items are applicable to (university) students; employed, unemployed, and self-employed people; housewives and -husbands; old-age pensioners; and so forth. To obtain the final 11-item Standard Stress Scale (SSS), 35 questions regarding stressful life situations, social stress, daily distress, anxiety about the future, and other stresses and strains were developed following the theoretical approach of the effort-reward imbalance model (ERI) and the demand-control model. These 35 items were pretested with different subsamples-such as students in different school types, university students, and adults-using self-administered questionnaires. The total sample of the pretest includes 372 respondents. All of the 35 original questions had a small item-nonresponse rate and a good variance among respondents. Using factor analyses, the questions with the highest factor loading in each of the dimensions were used to represent the final 11-item SSS. In some cases, when the questions with the highest loading did not perform well in the cognitive pretest, the item with the second-highest loading was chosen instead. Although the most distinct items were selected, the final 11 items of the SSS show good reliability values. The Cronbach's Alpha values vary in a range in all subsamples from 0.58 for the unemployed to 0.66 for students. In addition, further analyses show a high correlation of the final SSS with self-rated health. The use of the SSS is free of charge but has to be cited using this publication.

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Measuring Effort–Reward Imbalance in School Settings: A Novel Approach and Its Association With Self-Rated Health

Cited by 34 publications

References 28 publications

Psychometric Testing of the Effort-Reward Imbalance–Short Form Among Blue-Collar Workers Employed in Small Industrial Settings in Korea

Psychometric Testing of the Effort-Reward Imbalance–Short Form Among Blue-Collar Workers Employed in Small Industrial Settings in Korea

Psychosocial functioning and self‐rated health in Japanese school‐aged children: A cross‐sectional study

The Standard Stress Scale (SSS): Measuring Stress in the Life Course

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