Frustration With Work
Measures Work Stress.
Sample items
- “Trying to get this job done was a very frustrating experience”
- “Being frustrated comes with this job”
Reliability & validity
Cronbach's α 0.67–0.84 across reported samples.
Sources
- Peters, O’Connor, and Rudolf (1980)
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 51%
“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 49%
“For instance, in a factory that produces audiovisual equipment, Julio Martinez—one of the people we studied with the Experience Sampling Method—is feeling listless on his job. As the movie projectors pass in front of him on the assembly line, he is distracted and can hardly keep…”
— Flowmatch 46%
Resources: Flow · Twelve Elements Great Managing