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Validity of the effort/reward imbalance questionnaire in health professionals from six Latin‐American countries
Author(s) -
JuárezGarcía Arturo,
VeraCalzaretta Aldo,
BlancoGomez Gisela,
GómezOrtíz Viviola,
HernándezMendoza Elena,
JacintoUbillus José,
Choi Bongkyoo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.22432
Subject(s) - latin americans , confirmatory factor analysis , equivalence (formal languages) , medicine , measurement invariance , scale (ratio) , general health questionnaire , clinical psychology , validity , mental health , psychometrics , psychology , demography , psychiatry , statistics , structural equation modeling , geography , mathematics , cartography , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , discrete mathematics
Background This study tests the validity and the invariance of ERI questionnaire (ERIQ) data from health professionals in six different Latin‐American countries. Methods One thousand two hundred ninety‐two (1292) participants who worked in hospitals in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela completed the ERI and GHQ questionnaires. Partial correlations were carried out as well as reliability statistics and confirmatory factor analyses to examine factor structure and invariance of ERIQ in each subsample. Results Overall confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the theoretical structure of the ERIQ. The effort and overcommitment scales were invariant (equivalent) across the six countries, but the reward scale was only partially invariant. Several associations between ERIQ and mental health remain significant after controlling for sociodemographic variables. Conclusions Although the validity of the ERIQ’ scales were generally satisfactory in most Latin‐American samples, future research should examine in depth the equivalence of reward scale across Latin‐American cultures. Am. J. Ind. Med. 58:636–649, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.