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Table 4 Characteristics of all variables and items involved in the CFA

From: Linking quantitative demands to offshore wind workers’ stress: do personal and job resources matter? A structural equation modelling approach

Variables

M

SD

r it

factor loadings

Quantitative demands

47.6

19.3

  

 qd1: “Do you have to work very fast?”

52.1

22.4

.53

.61

 qd2: “Is your workload unevenly distributed so it piles up?”

42.1

25.3

.62

.81

 qd3: “How often do you not have time to complete all your work tasks?”

44.6

25.2

.57

.74

 qd4: “Do you have to do overtime / extra work?”

51.5

31.3

.36

.43

Influence at work

45.4

20.7

  

 infl1: “Do you have a large degree of influence concerning your work?”

56.8

25.0

.61

.72

 infl2: “Do you have a say in choosing who you work with?”

32.9

26.4

.59

.69

 infl3: “Can you influence the amount of work assigned to you?”

37.6

25.7

.58

.68

 Infl4: “Do you have any influence on what you do at work?”

54.4

28.9

.58

.68

Social support

71.9

17.9

  

 supp1: “How often do you get help and support from your colleagues?”

76.6

18.5

.52

.48

 supp2: “How often are your colleagues willing to listen to your problems at work?”

75.0

20.7

.64

.61

 supp3: “How often do you get help and support from your nearest superior?”

66.0

24.6

.70

.86

 supp4: “How often is your immediate superior willing to listen to your work related problems?”

70.1

25.5

.65

.82

Stress

35.0

20.2

  

 stress1: “How often have you had problems relaxing?”

34.4

25.1

.71

.77

 stress2: “How often have you been irritable?”

30.6

22.6

.68

.73

 stress3: “How often have you been tense?”

37.9

23.5

.77

.86

 stress4: “How often have you been stressed?”

37.1

23.5

.78

.85

Psychological detachment

2.7

0.9

  

 “After an offshore working day…”

 detach1: “I forget about work.”

2.7

1.0

.82

.79

 detach2: “I don’t’ think about work at all.”

2.4

1.0

.81

.79

 detach3: “I distance myself from my work.”

2.8

1.0

.82

.89

 detach4: “I get a break from the demands of work.”

2.9

1.0

.83

.92

  1. M = Mean, SD = Standard deviation, rit = Corrected Item-Total Correlation