Job Crafting Scale.
JCS
- What it measures
- Job crafting (JD-R framing): Increasing Structural Job Resources, Increasing Social Job Resources, Increasing Challenging Job Demands, Decreasing Hindering Job Demands.
- Length and format
- 21 (4 dimensions). 5-pt frequency Likert (never -> very often) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many incl. NL, EN, ES, ZH, JA, PT, DE and others
- 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
- Tims, M., Bakker, A.B., & Derks, D. (2012). Development and validation of the job crafting scale. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80(2), 173-186.
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