Occupational Stress Scale
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “Feeling you have too much responsibility for the work of others”
- “Having to do or decide things where mistakes could be quite costly”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.59–0.76 across reported samples.
Sources
- House, McMichael, Wells, Kaplan, and Landerman (1979) (1979)
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.
“Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS; Sheehan, 1983) The SDS is a composite of three self-rated items designed to measure the extent to which three major sectors in the patient’s life—work, social life, and family life—are impaired by psychiatric symptoms. Despite its brevity, the…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 51%
“Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (Zung SDS; Zung, 1965) The Zung SDS, a 20-item self-report measure designed for individuals with a primary diagnosis of depression, asks the participant to rate what proportion of time a symptom is experienced (a little time to most of the…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 50%
“The Q-LES-Q is associated in expected ways with measures of symptoms and impairment, and has been shown to detect clinical changes in response to treatment (Rabkin et al., 2000). Quality of Life Index (QLI; Ferrans & Powers, 1985) The QLI is a self-report measure (70 items)…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 50%
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