The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ): An instrument for internationally comparative assessments of psychosocial job characteristics.

TLDR

The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) measures psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, physical demands, and job insecurity. The JCQ’s reliability was evaluated across 10,288 men and 6,313 women in six studies from four countries. The scales showed substantial similarity in means, standard deviations, and correlations across genders and studies, with good reliability for most scales, indicating that psychological job characteristics are more comparable across national boundaries than across occupations.

Abstract

Part I discusses the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), designed to measure scales assessing psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, physical demands, and job insecurity. Part II describes the reliability of the JCQ scales in a cross-national context using 10,288 men and 6,313 women from 6 studies conducted in 4 countries. Substantial similarity in means, standard deviations, and correlations among the scales, and in correlations between scales and demographic variables, is found for both men and women in all studies. Reliability is good for most scales. Results suggest that psychological job characteristics are more similar across national boundaries than across occupations.