Work: attitudes and wellbeing.
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76 instruments
- Andrews-Withey Job Satisfaction / Faces single-item measures
Overall job (and life) satisfaction via very short evaluative items, including the delighted-terrible scale; related to Kunin's Faces Scale (single-item smiley-face satisfaction).
Open1-5 (single-item or very short) - AWS - Areas of Worklife Survey
Person-job fit across six areas of worklife that drive burnout vs engagement: Workload (manageable), Control, Reward, Community, Fairness, Values (congruence).
Restricted28 (full); 18 (short, 6 areas x 3) - BWAS - Bergen Work Addiction ScaleLength: Under 10 items
Work addiction defined via seven core addiction criteria: salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, relapse, problems.
Attribution7 items - BRJSI - Brayfield-Rothe Index of Job Satisfaction
Overall (global) job satisfaction - general affective attitude toward one's job.
Open18; 5-item short form widely used - BJSQ - Brief Job Stress Questionnaire
Job stressors, stress reactions (psychological and physical) and modifying factors (social support, satisfaction) - the NIOSH job-stress model
Open57 (standard); 23-item short form - BAT - Burnout Assessment Tool
Burnout as energy-regulation failure: four core symptoms (Exhaustion, Mental Distance, Cognitive Impairment, Emotional Impairment) plus secondary symptoms (psychological + psychosomatic complaints).
Restricted23 core (BAT-C); +10 secondary (BAT-S) = 33 total; BAT-12 short core - CVQ - Calling and Vocation Questionnaire
Calling toward work across two scales (Presence of / Search for a calling), each spanning three sources: Transcendent Summons, Purposeful Work (meaning), and Prosocial Orientation (other-oriented).
Attribution24 (12 presence + 12 search); Brief Calling Scale (BCS) = 4 - CBI - Copenhagen Burnout Inventory
Burnout as fatigue/exhaustion across three life domains: Personal burnout, Work-related burnout, Client-related burnout.
Open19 (6 / 7 / 6) - COPSOQ - Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire
Comprehensive psychosocial work environment: demands, work organization/job content, interpersonal relations/leadership, work-individual interface, social capital, offending behaviors, and health/wellbeing outcomes (stress, burnout, etc.) across ~26-46 dimensions.
Attribution~40 short / ~60 (middle, 26 dims) / ~141-148 (long, ~45-46 dims) - DUWAS - Dutch Work Addiction Scale
Workaholism with two components: Working Excessively (behavioral) and Working Compulsively (cognitive/affective).
Attribution17 (original); 10 (DUWAS-10, 5+5); 7-item ultra-short proposed - ERI - Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire
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.
Attribution23 (long); 16 (short, incl. overcommitment); core ~10-17 - ELS - Emotional Labour Scale
Emotional labour at work - surface acting, deep acting, and the frequency/intensity/variety/duration of required emotional display
Attribution15 (six facets) - EWPS - Endicott Work Productivity ScaleLength: 25 to 60
Work productivity impairment - the frequency of behaviours and subjective states that reduce productivity at work (lateness, distraction, errors, slowness, interpersonal friction), used as a treatment outcome.
Restricted25 items - Q12 - Gallup Q12 (Gallup Workplace Audit)
Employee engagement operationalized as 12 actionable workplace conditions (expectations, materials/equipment, opportunity to do best, recognition, someone cares, development, opinions count, mission, committed coworkers, best friend, progress discussions, learning/growth).
Restricted12 (+ 1 overall satisfaction item, Q00) - QPSNordic - General Nordic Questionnaire for Psychological and Social Factors at Work
Psychological, social and organizational work factors: job demands and control, role expectations, predictability/mastery, leadership, organizational culture/climate, work-home interaction, work centrality, commitment, work motivation.
Attribution123 (full); 37 (QPSNordic 34+ short) - HSE MSIT - HSE Management Standards Indicator Tool
Work-related stress risk across seven Management Standards: Demands, Control, Managerial Support, Peer Support, Relationships, Role, Change.
Attribution35 (7 subscales); 25-item brief version exists - IOR - Index of Organizational Reactions
Facet job satisfaction / organizational reactions - supervision, company identification, kind of work, amount of work, co-workers, physical conditions, financial rewards, career future
Attribution42 (8 subscales) - ISA Engagement Scale (Intellectual, Social, Affective)
Employee engagement with three facets: Intellectual, Social, and Affective engagement (Kahn-based; work-role focus, activation, positive affect).
Attribution9 (3 facets x 3) - JCQ - Job Content Questionnaire
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.
Restricted49 (recommended); 27 core; 22-item national variants; JCQ2 expanded - JCQ-S - Job Crafting Questionnaire (Slemp and Vella-Brodrick)
Job crafting in the original Wrzesniewski-Dutton role-based tradition: Task crafting, Cognitive (relational meaning) crafting, and Relational crafting - proactive changes employees make to the task, cognitive, and relational boundaries of their work.
Attribution15 (3 forms x 5) - JCS - Job Crafting Scale
Job crafting (JD-R framing): Increasing Structural Job Resources, Increasing Social Job Resources, Increasing Challenging Job Demands, Decreasing Hindering Job Demands.
Attribution21 (4 dimensions) - JDI - Job Descriptive Index
Job satisfaction across five facets: Work itself, Pay, Promotion (opportunities), Supervision, Co-workers. Companion global measure = Job in General (JIG).
Restricted72 (5 facets); JIG adds 18 (8 in abridged aJIG) - JDS - Job Diagnostic Survey
Job design / work characteristics: five core job dimensions (Skill Variety, Task Identity, Task Significance, Autonomy, Feedback) feeding the Motivating Potential Score (MPS); also measures critical psychological states, growth-need strength, and satisfactions (incl. general/internal work motivation).
Open~83 (full survey, multiple sections) - JE - Job Embeddedness Scale
Job embeddedness - the web of forces keeping people in jobs, across Fit, Links, and Sacrifice, each split into on-the-job (organization) and off-the-job (community) facets (six-cell composite). Predicts staying/retention beyond satisfaction and commitment.
Attribution~40 (original composite); 7 (global/reflective measure, Crossley et al. 2007) - JES - Job Engagement Scale
Job engagement as investment of personal energies into work role (Kahn's model): Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive engagement.
Attribution18 (3 subscales x 6); short form ~9 - JIG - Job in General Scale
Global / overall job satisfaction (unidimensional), independent of specific facets. Companion to the JDI.
Restricted18; abridged aJIG = 8 - JIS - Job Insecurity Scale
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.
Attribution4 (De Witte quantitative); 4 (Hellgren qualitative); 8/11-item combined; 16-item Vander Elst JIS variants - JSS - Job Satisfaction Survey
Job satisfaction across nine facets: Pay, Promotion, Supervision, Fringe Benefits, Contingent Rewards, Operating Conditions, Co-workers, Nature of Work, Communication. Sum of all 36 = total satisfaction.
Attribution36 (9 facets x 4 items) - JAWS - Job-related Affective Well-Being Scale
Job-related affective wellbeing - frequency of discrete work emotions mapped on a circumplex of pleasure-displeasure x high-low arousal; yields positive/negative and high/low-arousal affect scores and an overall affective-wellbeing index.
Attribution30 (full); 20 (short form) - MBI - Maslach Burnout Inventory
Occupational burnout: Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization/Cynicism, (reduced) Personal Accomplishment/Professional Efficacy.
Restricted22 (HSS/HSS-MP/ES); 16 (GS / GS-S) - MOAQ-JSS - Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire Job Satisfaction Subscale
Overall (global) job satisfaction - an employee's overall affective/evaluative response to the job, captured by a very short subscale of the larger Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire.
Open3 (job-satisfaction subscale); full MOAQ is a large modular battery - MSQ - Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire
Job satisfaction (need-fulfilment model). Long form: 20 facet subscales (e.g. ability utilization, achievement, advancement, compensation, co-workers, recognition, supervision, working conditions). Short form yields Intrinsic, Extrinsic and General Satisfaction.
Attribution100 (long form, 20 facets x 5 items); 20 (short form) - NFR - Need for Recovery Scale
Need for recovery after work - short-term fatigue/strain reflecting the effort spent at work (a precursor of chronic fatigue/burnout). Captures fatigue immediately after work, in the evening, and its social consequences.
Attribution11 (subscale of the VBBA) - NAQ-R - Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised
Exposure to workplace bullying / harassment across three factors: Work-related bullying, Person-related bullying, Physically intimidating bullying.
Attribution22 (short S-NAQ = 9) - GJSQ - NIOSH Generic Job Stress Questionnaire
Modular battery of ~13 job stressors (e.g. workload/quantitative demands, role ambiguity/conflict, job control, skill use/underutilization, job future ambiguity, interpersonal conflict) plus strains (depression, somatic complaints, job dissatisfaction) and modifiers (social support, Type A, self-esteem).
Openmodular (~100+ if full; modules selectable) - NOSACQ-50 - Nordic Occupational Safety Climate QuestionnaireLength: 25 to 60
Occupational safety climate across seven dimensions: management safety priority, commitment and competence; management safety empowerment; management safety justice; workers' safety commitment; workers' safety priority and risk non-acceptance; safety communication, learning and trust in co-workers' safety competence; and workers' trust in the efficacy of safety systems.
Attribution50 items - OLBI - Oldenburg Burnout Inventory
Burnout with two dimensions: Exhaustion and Disengagement from work (both with positively and negatively worded items, allowing engagement scoring too).
Attribution16 (2 x 8) - OCB-IO - Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB-I / OCB-O, Lee & Allen)
OCB by target: behaviors benefiting Individuals (OCB-I) vs the Organization (OCB-O). (Williams & Anderson 1991 introduced the I/O target distinction; Lee & Allen 2002 provide a 16-item affect/cognition-linked measure.)
Attribution16 (Lee & Allen, 8 OCB-I + 8 OCB-O); 14 (Williams & Anderson, 7+7) - OCB - Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (Podsakoff)
Organizational citizenship behavior across Organ's five dimensions: Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy, Civic Virtue.
Attribution24 (also rated by supervisor/peer) - OCM - Organizational Climate MeasureLength: Over 60
Organizational climate across 17 scales mapped onto the competing values framework: human relations (autonomy, integration, involvement, supervisory support, training, welfare), internal process (formalization, tradition), open systems (innovation and flexibility, outward focus, reflexivity) and rational goal (clarity of organizational goals, effort, efficiency, performance feedback, pressure to produce, quality).
Restricted82 items - OCQ - Organizational Commitment Questionnaire
Organizational commitment (Porter's attitudinal/affective view): identification with and involvement in the organization - willingness to exert effort, desire to remain, acceptance of organizational values.
Attribution15 (9-item short form excludes the 6 reverse-keyed items) - OCS - Organizational Constraints ScaleLength: 10 to 24
Organizational constraints - situational obstacles at work (poor equipment, incomplete information, interruptions, conflicting demands) that block performance
Non-commercial11 items - OID - Organizational Identification ScaleLength: Under 10 items
Organizational identification - perceived oneness with and belongingness to the employing organization, distinct from affective commitment and from job satisfaction.
Open6 items - OJS - Organizational Justice Scale (Colquitt)
Organizational justice - four dimensions: procedural, distributive, interpersonal, informational justice
Attribution20 (procedural 7, distributive 4, interpersonal 4, informational 5) - POPS - Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale
Perceived organizational politics across three dimensions: general political behaviour, going along to get ahead, and pay and promotion policies.
Attribution15 (1997 version); 12 items in the 1991 original - PCQ - Psychological Capital Questionnaire
Psychological Capital (PsyCap): Hope, (self-)Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism (the HERO constructs), plus an overall PsyCap composite.
Restricted24 (PCQ-24, 6 per dimension); 12 (PCQ-12) - PCB / PCV - Psychological Contract Breach and Violation Scales
Perceived breach of the psychological contract (the cognitive judgement that the employer has failed to meet its obligations) and violation (the affective response of betrayal and anger that follows).
Attribution9 (5 breach, 4 violation) - PES - Psychological Empowerment Scale (Spreitzer)
Psychological empowerment at work as intrinsic task motivation across four cognitions: Meaning, Competence, Self-Determination, Impact (plus an overall empowerment composite).
Attribution12 (4 x 3) - Psychological Engagement Scale (May, Gilson & Harter)
Kahn-based personal work engagement plus its three psychological conditions - meaningfulness, safety, availability
Attribution~24 engagement + condition items (13-item engagement core; approx) - REQ - Recovery Experience Questionnaire
Recovery from work during off-job time: Psychological Detachment, Relaxation, Mastery, Control.
Attribution16 (4 x 4) - JOE - Saks Job and Organization Engagement Scales
Employee engagement separated into Job Engagement (psychological presence in one's job/role) and Organization Engagement (psychological presence as an organization member); grounded in Kahn's and social-exchange framing.
Attribution12 (5 job engagement + 6 organization engagement; an overall item in some uses) - SMBM - Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure
Burnout as depletion of energetic resources (Conservation of Resources theory): Physical Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion, Cognitive Weariness.
Attribution14 (also 12- and 8-item variants) - SMVM - Shirom-Melamed Vigor Measure
Vigor at work (the positive, energetic counterpart to burnout in Conservation of Resources theory): Physical Strength, Emotional Energy, and Cognitive Liveliness.
Attribution12 (5 physical strength + 4 emotional energy + 3 cognitive liveliness); 8-item short form - SPS-6 - Stanford Presenteeism Scale
Presenteeism - reduced on-the-job productivity due to health problems: Completing Work and Avoiding Distraction components.
Restricted6 (SPS-6; longer SPS-13/SPS-32 exist) - SPOS - Survey of Perceived Organizational Support
Perceived organizational support (POS) - the global belief that the organization values employees' contributions and cares about their well-being (unidimensional).
Attribution36 (original); widely used 8-, 16-, and 17-item short forms - DCSQ - Swedish Demand-Control-Support Questionnaire
Karasek-Theorell demand-control-support model in a short form: Psychological Demands, Decision Latitude (skill discretion + decision authority), and Social Support at work.
Attribution17 (5 demands + 6 decision latitude + 6 support) - TCI - Team Climate Inventory
Team-level climate for innovation across four factors: vision, participative safety, task orientation and support for innovation.
Mixed44 (full); 38-item and 14-item short versions - TPS - Team Psychological Safety Scale (Edmondson)Length: Under 10 items
Team psychological safety - shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking (asking for help, admitting mistakes, raising concerns).
Attribution7 items - TCM - Three-Component Model Employee Commitment Survey
Organizational commitment as three mindsets: Affective (want to), Continuance (need to), Normative (ought to) commitment. Extensions cover occupational/career commitment.
Restricted18 (revised, 6 per component); original 24 (8 per component) - TaW - Thriving at Work Scale
Thriving at work - the joint experience of Vitality (energy, aliveness) and Learning (acquiring/applying knowledge and skills) at work.
Attribution10 (5 vitality + 5 learning)