Job Content Questionnaire.

JCQ

What it measures

Psychosocial work characteristics under the Demand-Control(-Support) model: Psychological Demands, Decision Latitude (skill discretion + decision authority), Social Support (supervisor/coworker), plus physical demands and job insecurity.

Length and format

49 (recommended); 27 core; 22-item national variants; JCQ2 expanded. 4-pt agreement Likert (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

25+ langs incl. ES, FR, JA, ZH, NL, IT, SV, PT, MS, 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

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Karasek, R., Brisson, C., Kawakami, N., Houtman, I., Bongers, P., & Amick, B. (1998). The Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ). Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 3(4), 322-355. https://www.jcqcenter.com/

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