A circumplex model of affect

The detection of psychiatric illness by questionnaire

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/5/110/206.full.pdf

The american psychological association.

http://depts.washington.edu/uwcssc/sites/default/files//hw00/d40/uwcssc/sites/default/files/Acceptance%20and%20Action%20Questionnaire%20(AAQ-II)_0.pdf

Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance.

The topic of emotions in the workplace is beginning to garner closer attention by researchers and theorists. The study of emotional labor addresses the stress of managing emotions when the work role demands that certain expressions be shown to customers. However, there has been no overarching framework to guide this work, and the previous studies have often disagreed on the definition and operationalization of emotional labor. The purposes of this article are as follows: to review and compare previous perspectives of emotional labor, to provide a definition of emotional labor that integrates these perspectives, to discuss emotion regulation as a guiding theory for understanding the mechanisms of emotional labor, and to present a model of emotional labor that includes individual differences (such as emotional intelligence) and organizational factors (such as supervisor support).

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Emotion regulation in the workplace: a new way to conceptualize emotional labor.

In 1978, Comrey wrote a guide to factor analysis in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. This paper provides an update of the information given by Comrey in relation to exploratory factor analysis (EFA) for work and organizational psychologists, and particularly those involved with test development, interpretation and validation. In doing so, it offers a user's guide to contemporary methods and available techniques and introduces heuristics for dealing with problems of skew and kurtosis, social desirability response set, and factor naming.

Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Users’Guide

An inventory for the measurement of self‐reported stress and arousal

This paper concerns organizational safety culture and the structure or architecture of employee attitudes to safety as part of that culture. It begins by reviewing the somewhat scant literature relevant to this area, and then reports a study, conducted in a European company, which collected and factor analysed data on employee attitudes to safety. The framework provided for the study was that offered by Purdham (1984), and the results suggested that employees' attitudes to safety, within this company (across occupation/occupational level and country), could be mapped By five orthogonal factors: personal scepticism, individual responsibility, the safeness of the work environment, the effectiveness of arrangements for safety, and personal immunity. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed, and attention is drawn to their subsequent use in an intervention to enhance safety culture within the organization by attacking supervisors' attitudes to safety.

The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example

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Research on work-related stress

Objective. A global and systematic review of the available evidence examining the cost of
work-related stress would yield important insights into the magnitude and nature of this
social phenomenon. The objective of this systematic review was to collate, extract, review,
and synthesize economic evaluations of the cost of work-related stress to society. 
Method. A research protocol was developed outlining the search strategy. Included cost-ofillness
(COI) studies estimated the cost of work-related stress at a societal level, and were
published in English, French or German. Searches were carried out in ingentaconnect,
EBSCO, JSTOR, Science Direct, Web of Knowledge, Google and
Google scholar. Included studies were assessed against ten COI quality assessment criteria. 
Results. Fifteen COI studies met the inclusion criteria and were reviewed. These originated
from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the
United States, and the EU-15. At a national and pan-European level, the total estimated cost
of work-related stress in 2014 was observed to be considerable and ranged substantially
from US$221.13 million to $187 billion. Productivity related losses were observed to
proportionally contribute the majority of the total cost of work-related stress (between 70 to
90%), with healthcare and medical costs constituting the remaining 10% to 30%. 
Conclusion. The evidence reviewed here suggests a sizeable financial burden imposed by
work-related stress on society. The observed range of cost estimates across studies was
understood to be attributable to variations in definitions of work-related stress; the number
and type of costs estimated; and, in how production loss was estimated. It is postulated that
the cost estimates identified by this review are likely conservative due to narrow definitions
of work-related stress (WRS) and the exclusion of diverse range of cost components.

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Tom Cox

Papers

Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Users’Guide

An inventory for the measurement of self‐reported stress and arousal

The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example

Research on work-related stress

The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review