Item bias in indices measuring psychosocial work environment and health

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 263-272

  Ørhede, Elsa ^a   Kreiner, Svend ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Differential item functioning; Index; Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033934301     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.541     Document Type: Article

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