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Table 1 Measured variables and instruments

From: A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada

Dimensions

Measured variable

Instruments

α*

Structural resources of work

Access to opportunities, information, support, and resources

Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire II (Laschinger et al., 2001) [13]

0.85

Adequacy of staffing

Staffing and Resource Adequacy subscale of the Pratice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (Lake, 2002) [39]

0.80

Resources related to work processes

Clarity of roles

Role Ambiguity subscale of the Role Conflict and Ambiguity Scale (Rizzo, House, & Lirtzman, 1970) [40]

0.82

Autonomy

Items concerning autonomy in the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) (Hackman & Oldham, 1975) [20]

0.86

Relationship with supervisor

Supervisor support subscale of the EQCOTESST survey (Vézina et al., 2011) [41]

0.83

Relationship with co-workers

Co-worker support subscale of the EQCOTESST survey (Vézina et al., 2011) [41]

0.66

Personal resources

Sense of personal efficacy

General Self-Efficacy Scale (Jerusalem & Schwarzer, 1995) [42]

0.87

Work demands

Physical demands of work

General index of cumulative physical constraints of work in the EQCOTESST survey (Vézina et al., 2011) [41]

0.82

Psychological demands of work

Psychological demands subscale of the EQCOTESST survey (Vézina et al., 2011) [41]

0.72

Outcomes

Intention to quit employment

Items based on the theory of Mobley, Horner, and Hollingsworth (1978) [43]

0.90

Stress

Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983) [44]

0.85

Emotional exhaustion

Emotional Exhaustion subscale of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson, 1981) [45]

0.90

Work satisfaction

Satisfaction subscale of the COPSOC-V3 (Dupret, Bocéréan, Teherani, & Feltrin, 2012) [46]

0.75

 

Work engagement

Utrecht Work engagement Scale (Schaufeli, Salanova, Gonxales-Roma & Bakker, 2002) [47]

0.92

  1. * Cronbach’s alpha coefficient