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Occupation-differential construct validity of the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) psychological job demands scale with physical job demands items: a mixed methods research

BongKyoo Choi Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 1 University Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA; Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Irvine, 5210 California Avenue, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA; Center for Women & Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 850 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA, 01854, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Alicia Kurowski Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 1 University Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA
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Meg Bond Center for Women & Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 850 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 870 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA
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Dean Baker Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Irvine, 5210 California Avenue, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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Els Clays Department of Public Health, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent, Belgium
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Dirk De Bacquer Department of Public Health, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, Ghent, Belgium
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Laura Punnett Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 1 University Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA; Center for Women & Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 850 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA
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Pages 425-439 | Received 22 Apr 2010, Accepted 23 Nov 2011, Published online: 16 Mar 2012

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Suyoung Kwon, Soo-Jeong Lee, Stephen Bao, A. B. de Castro, Jerald R. Herting & Kurt Johnson. (2023) Interaction between physical demands and job strain on musculoskeletal symptoms and work performance. Ergonomics 66:1, pages 34-48.
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Jessica Schiro, Pierre Loslever, François Gabrielli & Philippe Pudlo. (2015) Inter and intra-individual differences in steering wheel hand positions during a simulated driving task. Ergonomics 58:3, pages 394-410.
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BongKyoo Choi, Sangbaek Ko, Marnie Dobson, Peter L. Schnall, Javier Garcia-Rivas, Leslie Israel & Dean Baker. (2014) Short-term test–retest reliability of the Job Content Questionnaire and Effort–Reward Imbalance Questionnaire items and scales among professional firefighters. Ergonomics 57:6, pages 897-911.
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BongKyoo Choi & Youngju Seo. (2023) Developing a short standard questionnaire for assessing work organization hazards: the Healthy Work Survey (HWS). Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 35:1.
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BongKyoo Choi. (2020) Developing a Job Exposure Matrix of Work Organization Hazards in the United States: A Review on Methodological Issues and Research Protocol. Safety and Health at Work 11:4, pages 397-404.
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Anjali Vinod Nair, Alisha McGregor & Peter Caputi. (2020) The Impact of Challenge and Hindrance Demands on Burnout, Work Engagement, and Presenteeism. A Cross-Sectional Study Using the Job Demands–Resources Model. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 62:8, pages e392-e397.
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Lu Peng & Alan H.S. Chan. (2020) Adjusting work conditions to meet the declined health and functional capacity of older construction workers in Hong Kong. Safety Science 127, pages 104711.
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BongKyoo Choi. (2018) Job strain, long work hours, and suicidal ideation in US workers: a longitudinal study. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 91:7, pages 865-875.
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Judith E. Gold, Alicia Kurowski, Rebecca J. Gore & Laura Punnett. (2018) Knee pain in nursing home workers after implementation of a safe resident handling program. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 61:10, pages 849-860.
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Jacky Y. K. Ng & Alan H. S. Chan. (2018) The Work Ability of Hong Kong Construction Workers in Relation to Individual and Work-Related Factors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15:5, pages 990.
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Heidi Vastamäki, Martti Vastamäki, Katri Laimi & Mikhail Saltychev. (2017) Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Finnish Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) in 590Professional Musicians. The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 8:3, pages 174-180.
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Bilal Akhter Mateen, Catherine Doogan, Kate Hayward, Susan Hourihan, Joanne Hurford & E. Diane Playford. (2017) Systematic Review of Health-Related Work Outcome Measures and Quality Criteria-Based Evaluations of Their Psychometric Properties. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 98:3, pages 534-560.
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BongKyoo Choi & Arturo Juárez-García. 2017. Psychosocial Health, Work and Language. Psychosocial Health, Work and Language 3 18 .
Yuan Zhang, Laura Punnett, Geoffry Phillips McEnany & Rebecca Gore. (2016) Contributing influences of work environment on sleep quantity and quality of nursing assistants in long-term care facilities: A cross-sectional study. Geriatric Nursing 37:1, pages 13-18.
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Isabel Judith Garcia-Rojas, BongKyoo Choi & Niklas Krause. (2015) Psychosocial job factors and biological cardiovascular risk factors in Mexican workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 58:3, pages 331-351.
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Laura Punnett. (2014) Musculoskeletal disorders and occupational exposures: How should we judge the evidence concerning the causal association?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 42:13_suppl, pages 49-58.
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Fredric Gerr, Nathan B. Fethke, Dan Anton, Linda Merlino, John Rosecrance, Michele Marcus & Michael P. Jones. (2013) A Prospective Study of Musculoskeletal Outcomes Among Manufacturing Workers. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56:1, pages 178-190.
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Holendro Singh Chungkham, Michael Ingre, Robert Karasek, Hugo Westerlund & Töres Theorell. (2013) Factor Structure and Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of the Demand Control Support Model: An Evidence from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH). PLoS ONE 8:8, pages e70541.
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