Job Insecurity Scale.

JIS

What it measures

Job insecurity: Quantitative (worry about losing the job itself) and Qualitative (worry about losing valued job features). De Witte's JIS measures quantitative; Hellgren et al. add a qualitative scale.

Length and format

4 (De Witte quantitative); 4 (Hellgren qualitative); 8/11-item combined; 16-item Vander Elst JIS variants. 5-pt agreement Likert (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Multiple incl. NL, EN, ES, SV, plus the five-country set (BE, NL, ES, SE, UK)

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

Vander Elst, T., De Witte, H., & De Cuyper, N. (2014). The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23(3), 364-380.