Improving the measurement accuracy of the effort-reward imbalance scales

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-119

  Tsutsumi, Akizumi ^a   Iwata, Noboru ^b   Wakita, Takafumi ^c   Kumagai, Ryuichi ^d   Noguchi, Hiroyuki ^e   Kawakami, Norito ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effort reward imbalance; Item response theory; Measurement accuracy; Psychological testing; Questionnaire; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFORT REWARD IMBALANCE SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CULTURE; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 45849144381     PISSN: 10705503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705500801929718     Document Type: Article

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