Job stressor-mental health associations in a sample of Japanese working adults: Artifacts of positive and negative questions?

Industrial Health

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-270

  Iwata, Noboru ^a   Kawakami, Norito ^b   Harantani, Takashi ^c   Murata, Katsuyuki ^d   Araki, Shunichi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender difference; General Health Questionnaire; Japanese workers; NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire; Positive and negative questions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STRESS; WORKER;

EID: 0032941824     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.37.263     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Iwata N (1997) Measuring procedure for subjective stress reactions. Job Stress Res 5, 7-13 (In Japanese).
2. Radloff LS (1977) The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Meas 1, 385-401.
3. Vernon SW, Roberts RE, Lee ES (1982) Response tendencies, ethnicity and depression scores. Am J Epidemiol 116, 482-95.
4. Iwata N, Saito K, Roberts RE (1994) Responses to a self-administered depression scale among younger adolescents in Japan. Psychiatry Res 53, 275-87.
5. Iwata N, Roberts CR, Kawakami N (1995) Japan-U.S. comparison of responses to depression scale items among adult workers. Psychiatry Res 58, 237-45.
6. Iwata N, Mishima N, Shimizu T, Mizoue T, Fukuhara M, Hidano T, and Spielberger CD (1998) The Japanese adaptation of the STAI Form Y in Japanese working adults: the presence or absence of anxiety. Ind Health 36, 8-13.
7. Iwata N, Buka S (Unpublished manuscript) Ethnicity and depressive symptoms: a cross-cultural comparison among university students in Japan, Argentina, and America.
8. Iwata N, Okuyama Y, Kawakami Y, Saito K (1989) Prevalence of depressive symptoms in a Japanese occupational setting: a preliminary study. Am J Public Health 79, 1486-9.
9. Iwata N, Uno B, Suzuki T (1994) Psychometric properties of the 30-item version General Health Questionnaire in Japanese. Jpn J Psychiatr Neurol 48, 547-56.
10. Iwata N, Roberts RE (1996) Age differences among Japanese on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: an ethnocultural perspective on somatization. Soc Sci Med 43, 967-74.
11. Iwata N, Umesue M, Egashira K, Hiro H, Mizoue T, Mishima N, and Nagata S (1998) Can positive affect items be used to assess depressive disorders in the Japanese population? Psychol Med 28, 153-8.
12. Iwata N, Mishima N, Shimizu T, Mizoue T, Fukuhara M, Hidano T, Spielberger CD (1998) Positive and negative affects in the factor structure of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Japanese workers. Psychol Rep 82, 651-6.
13. Iwata N, Komatsu K, Nishida K (1998) Positive and negative factors of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory in a sample of Japanese university students. Jpn J Stress Sci 12, 206-15.
14. Goldberg DP (1972) The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire. Maudsley Monograph No.21, Oxford University Press, London.
15. Hurrell JJ Jr, McLaney MA (1988) Exposure to job stress: a new psychometric instrument. Scand J Work Environ Health 14 (Suppl 1), 27-8.
16. Nakagawa Y, Daibo I (1982) Tests of the validity and reliability of the Japanese version General Health Questionnaire and its clinical applications. In: The theory behind understanding psychiatric and neurotic symptoms using a questionnaire and its clinical applications. Part 2. ed. by Nakagawa Y, 110-97, Monograph of National Institute of Mental Health, Japan. Ichikawa (In Japanese).
17. Iwata N (1992) A brief introduction to the self-administered questionnaires for minor psychiatric impairment. Archives of Psychiatric Diagnostics and Clinical Evaluation 3, 413-27 (In Japanese).
18. Banks MH, Clegg CW, Jackson PR, Kemp NJ, Stafford EM, Wall TD (1980) The use of General Health Questionnaire as an indicator of mental health in occupational studies. J Occup Psychol 53, 187-94.
19. Iwata N, Okuyama Y, Kawakami Y, Saito K (1988) The twelve-item General Health Questionnaire among Japanese workers. Environmental Science, Hokkaido University 11, 1-10.
20. Iwata N, Dohi I (Unpublished manuscript) The factor structure of the 12-item version General Health Questionnaire in the Japanese population: a confirmatory factor analysis.
21. Haratani T, Kawakami N, Araki S (1993) Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire. Jpn J Ind Health 35 (Suppl), S214 (In Japanese).
22. Haratani T, Kawakami N, Araki S, Hurrell JJ Jr, Sauter SL, Swanson NG (1996) Psychometric properties and stability of the Japanese version of the NIOSH job stress questionnaire. 25th International Congress on Occupational Health - Book of Abstracts 2, 393.
23. MONICA Psychosocial Optional Study Group (1984) Suggested measurement instruments. (Unpublished material).
24. Uehata T (1993) "Sutoresu to seikatsu-shuukan, kenkosutoresu to kenko sogo-chosa kara" Bulletin of Institute of Public Health 42, 385-401 (In Japanese).
25. Watson D, Clark LA (1984) Negative affectivity: the disposition to experience negative emotional stress. Psychol Bull 96, 465-90.
26. Watson D, Tellegen A (1985) Toward a consensual structure of mood. Psychol Bull 98, 219-35.
27. Brief AP, Burke MJ, George JM (1988) Should negative affectivity remain an unmeasured variable in the study of job stress? J Appl Psychol 73, 193-8.
28. Watson D, Pennebaker JW (1989) Health complaints, stress, and distress: exploring the central role of negative affectivity. Psychol Rev 96, 234-54.
29. Jex SM, Spector PE (1996) The impact of negative affectivity on stressor-strain relations: a replication and extension. Work & Stress 10, 36-45.
30. Spielberger CD (1983) Manual for the state-trait anxiety inventory: STAI (Form Y). Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA.
31. Iwata N, Saito RH (Unpublished manuscript) Responses of Japanese and American university students to the STAI items that assess the presence or absence of anxiety.
32. Goldberg DP, Hillier VF (1979) A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychol Med 9, 139-45.
33. Iwata N, Suzuki K, Saito K, Abe K (1992) Type A personality, work stress and psychological distress in Japanese adult employees. Stress Med 8, 11-21.
34. Iwata N (1997) Strategies for evaluation of stressors at work and meaning in stress science: 2. a historical view of occupational stress models and stressor measurements. Job Stress Res 4, 30-4 (In Japanese).
35. Shigemi J, Mino Y, Tsuda T, Babazono A, Aoyama H (1997) The relationship between job stress and mental health at work. Ind Health 35, 29-35.
36. Mishima N, Nagata S, Kubota S, Haratani T, Kawakami N, Araki S (1996) Occupational stress and mental health. Jpn J Psychosom Med 36, 146-51 (In Japanese).
37. Iwata N, Suzuki K (1997) Role stress-mental health relations in Japanese bank workers: a moderating effect of social support. Appl Psychol: An Int Rev 46, 207-18.
38. Frese M, Zapf D (1988) Methodological issues in the study of work stress: objective vs subjective measurement of work stress and the question of longitudinal studies. In: Causes, coping and consequences of stress at work. eds. by Cooper CL, Payne R, 375-411, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester.
39. Iwata N (1997) Strategies for evaluation of stressors at work and their meaning in stress science: 1. procedures for measuring and evaluating stressors at work. Job Stress Res 4, 23-29 (In Japanese).