Work-Related Quality of Life Scale.
WRQoL
Quality of working life across six factors: job and career satisfaction, general wellbeing, stress at work, control at work, home-work interface and working conditions.
- Length and format
- 23 scored items (24 including a global item). 5-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Validated versions in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Malay and Italian among others; a WRQoL-2 revision is in circulation.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Van Laar, D., Edwards, J. A., & Easton, S. (2007). The Work-Related Quality of Life scale for healthcare workers. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 60(3), 325-333.
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