Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

: Fransson EI, Nyberg ST, Heikkila K, Alfredsson L, Bacquer D, Batty GD, Bonenfant S, Casini A, Clays E, Goldberg M, Kittel F, Koskenvuo M, Knutsson A, Leineweber C, Hanson LLM, Nordin M, Singh-Manoux A, Suominen S, Vahtera J, Westerholm P, Westerlund H, Zins M, Theorell T, Kivimaki M

Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD

: 2012

: BMC Public Health

: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

: ARTN 62

: 12

: 62

: 9

: 1471-2458

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-62

Conclusions: Partial job demand and job control scales with at least half of the items of the complete scales, and job strain indices based on one complete and one partial scale, seemed to assess the same underlying concepts as the complete survey instruments.