Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

Fransson, Eleonor I; Nyberg, Solja T; Heikkilä, Katriina; Alfredsson, Lars; Bacquer, De Dirk; Batty, G David; Bonenfant, Sébastien; Casini, Annalisa; Clays, Els; Goldberg, Marcel; Kittel, France; Koskenvuo, Markku; Knutsson, Anders; Leineweber, Constanze; Magnusson Hanson, Linda L; Nordin, Maria; Singh-Manoux, Archana; Suominen, Sakari; Vahtera, Jussi; Westerholm, Peter; Westerlund, Hugo; Zins, Marie; Theorell, Töres; Kivimäki, Mika

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-62

Table 5 The agreement between job strain definitions using the complete vs. partial scales

From: Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

Job strain	Belstress N = 21024		Gazel N = 11362		HeSSup N = 16773		SLOSH N = 10970		WOLF N N = 4702		WOLF S N = 5667
Version of partial scales*	Sensitivity Specificity	κ^†	Sensitivity Specificity	κ	Sensitivity Specificity	κ	Sensitivity Specificity	κ	Sensitivity Specificity	κ	Sensitivity Specificity	κ
Complete demands and control scale vs. complete demands and partial control scale
Demands version A, control version C (5 items)	0.85 1.00	0.90	0.87 0.99	0.90	0.86 0.99	0.88	0.92 0.97	0.88	0.97 0.95	0.81	0.89 0.99	0.89
Complete demands and control scale vs. partial demands and complete control scale
Demands version B (4 items), control version A	0.83 1.00	0.88	0.77 1.00	0.85	0.93 0.98	0.91	0.97 0.98	0.93	0.74 1.00	0.83	0.98 0.96	0.87
Demands version C (4 items), control version A	0.83 1.00	0.87	0.85 0.99	0.87	0.93 0.97	0.87	0.75 1.00	0.82	0.79 0.99	0.85	0.96 0.96	0.86
Demands version D (3 items), control version A	0.84 0.99	0.86	0.56 1.00	0.68	0.88 0.97	0.85	0.62 1.00	0.72	0.72 0.99	0.79	0.92 0.96	0.84
Demands version E (3 items), control version A	0.90 0.97	0.86	0.81 0.99	0.84	0.91 0.95	0.83	0.62 1.00	0.71	0.76 0.99	0.80	0.61 0.99	0.69
Demands version F (2 items), control version A	0.70 0.99	0.77	0.66 0.99	0.74	0.66 0.98	0.70	0.69 0.98	0.75	0.46 0.99	0.58	0.65 0.97	0.68
Complete demands and control scale vs. partial demands and partial control scale
Demands version C (4 items), control version F (2 items)	0.67 0.96	0.67	0.66 0.96	0.64	0.78 0.93	0.68	0.58 0.97	0.62	0.68 0.93	0.58	0.63 0.95	0.62
Demands version E (3 items), control version E (5 items)	0.75 0.97	0.76	0.66 0.99	0.72	0.78 0.95	0.73	0.57 0.98	0.64	0.72 0.97	0.72	0.45 0.99	0.55
Demands version F (2 items), control version D (5 items)	0.65 0.98	0.71	0.66 0.93	0.57	0.62 0.97	0.64	0.63 0.99	0.70	0.45 0.99	0.54	0.57 0.98	0.62
Demands version G (2 items), control version B (5 items)	0.47 0.98	0.55	0.72 0.95	0.66	0.73 0.94	0.67	0.70 0.96	0.70	0.62 0.97	0.64	0.43 0.99	0.54

*Abbreviated items of the complete demands scale (version A): 1. "Work very fast"; 2. "Work very hard/intensively"; 3. "Too much effort/No excessive work"; 4. "Enough time"; 5. "Conflicting demands". Version B include items 1, 2, 4, 5; version C items 1, 2, 3, 4; version D items 2, 3, 4; version E items 1, 4, 5; version F items 1, 4; and version G items 4, 5.
Abbreviated items of the complete control scale (version A): 1. "Learn new things"; 2. "High level of skill"; 3. "Require creativity/initiative"; 4. "Repetitive work"; 5. "A lot of say"/"Deciding what to do"; 6. "Deciding how". Version B include items: 1,2,4,5,6; version C items: 1,2,3,4,6; version D items:1,3,4,5,6; version E items: 1,2,3,4,5; and version F items: 3,6.
^†Kappa statistic (κ)

Back to article page

ISSN: 1471-2458

Contact us

Submission enquiries: bmcpublichealth@biomedcentral.com
General enquiries: ORSupport@springernature.com

BMC Public Health

Contact us