Perceived Job Stressors
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “Lack of positive work and life items: [Lack of positive work and life items]”
- “Variety [Lack of positive work and life items]”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.72–0.84 across reported samples.
Sources
- Kanner, Kafry, and Pines (1978)
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 time channeled into such a task is perceived as time subtracted from the total available for our life. Many people consider their jobs as something they have to do, a burden imposed from the outside, an effort that takes life away from the ledger of their existence. So even…”
— Flowmatch 52%
“When three of the characters in the movie take the unreliable office copier into a field and smash it to pieces with baseball bats, they too were just reflecting emotions that the research bears out. Of the 12 Elements, whether a person has the materials and equipment needed to…”
— Twelve Elements Great Managingmatch 51%
“Duke University Medical Center reported in a 1997 study that workplace stress, especially in tandem with a lack of job autonomy, heightens the incidence of depression, anxiety, anger. and a whole range of physical health problems. According to the Stress Institute of America’s…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 49%
Resources: Flow · Twelve Elements Great Managing · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation