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doi:10.22028/D291-42021
Title: | How Relative Is Stress? |
Author(s): | Greulich, Berit König, Cornelius J. Fischer, Nancy |
Language: | English |
Title: | Journal of Personnel Psychology |
Volume: | 23 (2024) |
Issue: | 1 |
Publisher/Platform: | Hogrefe |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Free key words: | work stress survey social comparison contextualization reliability validity |
DDC notations: | 150 Psychology |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | In self-reports, employees frequently use self-selected social comparisons to assess workplace stressors and resources, but these comparisons vary within and between individuals. This study investigates how standardizing social comparison processes by adding a prescribed comparison to each item affects the reliability and validity of self-report scales measuring work-related stressors and resources and how the standardized comparison affects scale means. A total of 208 employees were randomly assigned to one of two groups, comparing their perceptions to either their direct colleagues or without instructed comparison. The results indicate no effect on reliability, improvement in validity for one scale, and differences in means between groups for stressors and a resource scale. These findings suggest potential benefits and drawbacks of standardized social comparisons in self-report measures. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1027/1866-5888/a000330 |
URL of the first publication: | https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000330 |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-420219 hdl:20.500.11880/37597 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-42021 |
ISSN: | 2190-5150 1866-5888 |
Date of registration: | 7-May-2024 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Cornelius König |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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