An International Comparative Reliability and Concurrent Validity Assessment of the Multi-Level Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0

作者：Wilfred Agbenyikey, Jian Li, Sung‐Il Cho, Sarven S. McLinton, Maureen F. Dollard, Maren Formazin, BongKyoo Choi, I.L.D. Houtman, Robert Karasek · 发表于：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3390/ijerph22091435 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Workplace Health and Well-being、Emotional Labor in Professions、Employment and Welfare Studies

BACKGROUND: This paper empirically tests the new multi-level Associationalist Demand Control (ADC) theory by applying the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) 2.0 that assesses both a wide range of task characteristics as well as work organizational and external-to-work psychosocial characteristics. METHODS: The paper is based on four JCQ 2.0 pilot studies among 16,125 workers in Korea, China, Australia, and Germany. All pilots used the original JCQ task-level scales and then added newly developed proposed items and scales, evolving more comprehensive higher-level scales from pilot to pilot from 2005 to 2011. A brief review of the analytic process is presented, followed by an assessment of the internal consistency and concurrent validity of the final 25 multi-level JCQ 2.0 scales at the task, the organizational, and the external levels. RESULTS: Adequate psychometric properties were established for the JCQ 2.0 pilot scales. The extended set of task-level scales was found to be robust across all samples; the new organizational scales mainly showed adequate internal consistency with α > 0.7 in Australia and Germany (tested only there) and were associated with relevant work- and health-related outcome measures as expected. Similarly, the external-to-work scales (tested only in Germany) had adequate Cronbach's Alpha values and showed expected associations to relevant outcome scales. CONCLUSIONS: Although not all scales were available in all countries, overall, the results support the ...