Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire.
ERI
- What it measures
- Work stress under the effort-reward imbalance model: Extrinsic Effort, Reward (esteem, job security/promotion, salary), and Overcommitment (intrinsic effort). The effort/reward ratio indexes imbalance.
- Length and format
- 23 (long); 16 (short, incl. overcommitment); core ~10-17. Likert (agreement + distress); short version typically 4-pt (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many incl. EN, ES, FR, SV, EL, KO, TH, ZH, JA, etc.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Siegrist, J. (1996). Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1(1), 27-41.
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