The use of parsimonious questionnaires in occupational health surveillance: Psychometric properties of the short Italian version of the effort/reward imbalance questionnaire

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Magnavita, Nicola ^a   Garbarino, Sergio ^b,c   Siegrist, Johannes ^d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; VALIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ITALY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REWARD; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; JOB SATISFACTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84866150455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2012/372852     Document Type: Article

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