Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain)
Stress is common in all work environments. Technostress and the difficulty of separating the family arena from the work environment are some of the new and emerging risks faced by companies, employees and society in general. Most of the available instruments for measuring stress in workers have been...
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| author | Rodríguez González-Moro, María Teresa Gallego Gómez, Juana Inés Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel Campillo Cano, María Consolación Rivera Caravaca, José Miguel Simonelli Muñoz, Agustín Javier |
| author_facet | Rodríguez González-Moro, María Teresa Gallego Gómez, Juana Inés Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel Campillo Cano, María Consolación Rivera Caravaca, José Miguel Simonelli Muñoz, Agustín Javier |
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| description | Stress is common in all work environments. Technostress and the difficulty of separating the family arena from the work environment are some of the new and emerging risks faced by companies, employees and society in general. Most of the available instruments for measuring stress in workers have been focused on education professionals and healthcare workers. Therefore, it is necessary to validate simple and friendly-use tools to detect stress levels in public workers. The aim of this study was to determine the internal consistency of an adapted version of the Student Stress Inventory-Stress Manifestations (SSI-SM) for public employees and to determine if high-stress levels are related to personal and work-related factors. A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted from October 2016 to February 2019 including 468 Spanish public workers based in Murcia. An adapted version of the SSI-SM was administered and data on personal and work-related factors were collected. Results showed that all of the factors had Cronbach’s α over 0.700, and no items need to be deleted due to correlations with the factor exceeding 0.300. Factor 1, “Self-concept”, has a Cronbach’s α of 0.868, with values of 15.62 ± 4.99; factor 2, “Sociability”, Cronbach’s α: 0.853, with mean values of 13.33 ± 4.17; factor 3, “Somatization”, Cronbach’s α: 0.704, mean value of 5.35 ± 1.90 and: factor 4, “Uncertainty”, Cronbach’s α: 0.746, with a mean value of 8.19 ± 2.51. In conclusion, the internal consistency of the adapted SSI-SM for public employees with different work positions and shifts has been validated and determined. This study provides a useful tool for the early detection of stress in public employees and may be potentially useful for preventing the harmful consequences of stress |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-90362023-04-12T19:19:23Z Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) Rodríguez González-Moro, María Teresa Gallego Gómez, Juana Inés Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel Campillo Cano, María Consolación Rivera Caravaca, José Miguel Simonelli Muñoz, Agustín Javier stress work-related stress government employees human characteristics Stress is common in all work environments. Technostress and the difficulty of separating the family arena from the work environment are some of the new and emerging risks faced by companies, employees and society in general. Most of the available instruments for measuring stress in workers have been focused on education professionals and healthcare workers. Therefore, it is necessary to validate simple and friendly-use tools to detect stress levels in public workers. The aim of this study was to determine the internal consistency of an adapted version of the Student Stress Inventory-Stress Manifestations (SSI-SM) for public employees and to determine if high-stress levels are related to personal and work-related factors. A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted from October 2016 to February 2019 including 468 Spanish public workers based in Murcia. An adapted version of the SSI-SM was administered and data on personal and work-related factors were collected. Results showed that all of the factors had Cronbach’s α over 0.700, and no items need to be deleted due to correlations with the factor exceeding 0.300. Factor 1, “Self-concept”, has a Cronbach’s α of 0.868, with values of 15.62 ± 4.99; factor 2, “Sociability”, Cronbach’s α: 0.853, with mean values of 13.33 ± 4.17; factor 3, “Somatization”, Cronbach’s α: 0.704, mean value of 5.35 ± 1.90 and: factor 4, “Uncertainty”, Cronbach’s α: 0.746, with a mean value of 8.19 ± 2.51. In conclusion, the internal consistency of the adapted SSI-SM for public employees with different work positions and shifts has been validated and determined. This study provides a useful tool for the early detection of stress in public employees and may be potentially useful for preventing the harmful consequences of stress 2020-12-09T10:36:21Z 2020-12-09T10:36:21Z 2020-11-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/9036 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/23/8894 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | stress work-related stress government employees human characteristics Rodríguez González-Moro, María Teresa Gallego Gómez, Juana Inés Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel Campillo Cano, María Consolación Rivera Caravaca, José Miguel Simonelli Muñoz, Agustín Javier Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title | Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title_full | Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title_fullStr | Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title_short | Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain) |
| title_sort | reliability and validity of a stress scale in public employees from murcia (spain) |
| topic | stress work-related stress government employees human characteristics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/9036 |
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