JCQ

AUTHORS

Karasek, R., Brisson, C., Kawakami, N., Houtman, I., Bongers, P., & Amick, B. 

The Job Content Questionnaire is a questionnaire-based instrument designed to measure the "content" of a respondent's work tasks in a general manner. It consists in 49 questions in sub-five scales: decision latitude, psychological demands, social support, physical demands, job insecurity. The conceptual framework underlying the JCQ allows its application in social policy as a measure of work quality (Karasek, 1998), but it tests also worker motivation, satisfaction, risks of individuals' exposures to different work.

REFERENCE

Karasek, R., Brisson, C., Kawakami, N., Houtman, I., Bongers, P., & Amick, B. (1998). The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): An instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3(4), 322–355. doi:10.1037/1076-8998.3.4.322 

Karasek, R. (1985).Job Content Questionnaire, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Kawakami, N., Kobayashi, F., Araki, S., Haratani, T., & Furui, H. (1995). Assessment of job stress dimensions based on the job demands-control model of employees of telecommunication and electric power companies in Japan: reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Job Content Questionnaire. International journal of behavioral medicine, 2(4), 358-375.