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Published on: October 19, 2011
[Short version of the "job stress scale": a Portuguese-language adaptation]
Márcia Guimarães de Mello Alves1, Dóra Chor, Eduardo Faerstein
1Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Objective:
To describe the adaptation to Portuguese of the short version of the "job stress scale", originally in English.
Methods:
We evaluate six aspects of equivalence between the original scale and the Portuguese version: conceptual, semantic, operational, item, measurement, and functional equivalences. A reliability test-retest study was conducted with 94 selected subjects.
Results:
Reproducibility (interclass correlation coefficients) for the 'demand', 'control', and 'social support' dimensions of the scale was estimated at 0.88, 0.87, and 0.85, respectively. Internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) estimates for these same dimensions were 0.79, 0.67, and 0.85, respectively.
Conclusions:
Our results suggest that the adaptation of the scale was successful, and indicate that its use in the sociocultural context of the studied population (Pró-Saúde survey) is appropriate.
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