ABSTRACT
The Job Stress Survey (JSS) is a self-report inventory designed to measure the perceived severity and frequency of occurrence of 30 job-related stressors that are encountered by female and male employees in a broad range of occupational settings. Two occupational stress factors, Job Pressure (e.g., meeting deadlines) and Lack of Organizational Support (e.g., fellow workers not doing their job), have been identified and found to be stable across gender and organizational levels. This chapter describes the development of a German adaptation of the JSS (JSS-G) and reports the results of validation studies for four occupational groups: primary-school teachers; secondary-school teachers; medical and nonmedical personnel associated with a large hospital; and bank employees. In all four studies, the two-factor structure of the original English JSS was replicated in the German adaptation, demonstrating cross-cultural construct validity for the JSS-G. Intercorrelations between the JSS-G and an organizational climate questionnaire, with scales that assessed staff cohesion, supervisory support, job satisfaction, and burnout, provided evidence of the convergent and discriminant validity of the German JSS.
