A General Measure of Work Stress: The Stress in General Scale

By Jeffrey M. Stanton, W. Balzer, P. C. Smith, Luis Fernando Parra, G. Ironson. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Personal and workgroup incivility: impact on work and health outcomes. (2008, methodology): “As in Study 1, job stress was measured by eight items from the Stress in General scale (Stanton et al., 2001).”
Burnout and risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence, possible causal paths, and promising research directions. (2006, unknown): “Steiger, A. (2003). Sleep and endocrinology.”
The impact of stress in self‐ and peer assessment (2005, methodology): “Several other scales do exist, such as the Stress in General Scale (Stanton et al., 2001) and the Job Demand-Control-Support model (Karasek & Theorell, 1990) but these tend to be involved with employees in situations wherein they report to a management structure (Pelfrene et al.”
Workaholism, work stress, work‐life imbalance: exploring gender's role (2008, methodology): “The 16-item Stress In General (SIG) scale developed by Stanton et al. (2001)”
Work Life Balance: A Conceptual Review (2018, background): “[99] job stress can be defined as individual’s perception about work environment as threatening or demanding, or discomfort experienced by an individual in the work place.”
Beyond the Individual Victim: Linking Sexual Harassment, Team Processes, and Team Performance (2005, background): “and "yes" as 3, after reverse-coding items as appro priate [Stanton et al., 2001]).”
Measurement Equivalence of the Job Descriptive Index Across Chinese and American Workers: Results from Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory (2005, background): “Although for diagnostic purposes, the five facet scales are scored independently, researchers have nevertheless confirmed an overall five-factor structure with a variety of American samples (e.g., Smith, Smith, & Rollo, 1974; Stanton et al., 2001).”
Antecedents and Consequences of Psychological Workplace Strain During Expatriation: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Investigation (2005, unknown): “General (SIG; Stanton, Balzer, Smith, Parra, & Ironson, 2001 ) scale to measure psychological workplace strain.”
Job stress, wellbeing, work-life balance and work-life conflict among Australian academics (2012, methodology): “Stanton et al. (2001) reported that both subscales demonstrated good internal consistency (job threat stress Cronbach’s alpha = .82, job pressure stress Cronbach’s Alpha = .88), and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a two-factor solution for job stress (Stanton, et al., 2001).”
High-involvement work processes, work intensification and employee well-being (2008, methodology): “Stanton et al. (2001) found that this item correlated well with multi-item measures of job pressure, a physiological measure of work stress, and perceived threat in the experience of work, while Macky and Boxall (2008) found a correlation of 0.72 between this measure and a seven-item measure of…”
Stress and health: psychological, behavioral, and biological determinants. (2005, background): “…studies have found that multiple facets of stress that may work synergistically are more potent than a single facet; for example, in the area of work stress, time pressure in combination with threat (Stanton et al. 2001), or high demand in combination with low control (Karasek & Theorell 1990).”