Work Tension Scale
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “My job tends to directly affect my health”
- “I work under a great deal of tensions”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.71–0.89 across reported samples.
Sources
- House and Rizzo (1981)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“The frustration is evident in the comments of employees who give a low score to the associates-committed-to-quality-work statement. “I don’t like the quality of people who are hired and just don’t care, don’t make an effort, and just show up for a check,” one employee complained…”
— Twelve Elements Great Managingmatch 40%
“[image file=image_rsrcA3J.jpg] Similar scales can be used for income and prices with the option of using vague quantifiers or more precise category labels. Hippler and Schwarz (1987) made a remarkable observation when they varied the category labels in an experiment about the…”
— Designevaluationandanalysisofquestionnaimatch 40%
“"Therapy Session Reports" by Orlinsky & Howard (1975). In order to develop a German version, the original version was first translated into German. The four dimensions with 10 therapist version and 8 patient's version sub-scales respectively, for the therapeutic alliance are…”
— Assessingchangeinpsychoanalyticpsychothematch 39%
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