Reliability and Validity of a Stress Scale in Public Employees from Murcia (Spain)

María Teresa Rodríguez-González-Moro, Juana Inés Gallego-Gómez, José Miguel Rodríguez-González-Moro, María Consolación Campillo Cano, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca and Agustín Javier Simonelli-Muñoz
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María Teresa Rodríguez-González-Moro: Faculty of Nursing, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Murcia, Spain
Juana Inés Gallego-Gómez: Faculty of Nursing, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Murcia, Spain
José Miguel Rodríguez-González-Moro: Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid, Spain
María Consolación Campillo Cano: Faculty of Nursing, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Murcia, Spain
José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca: Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria (IMIB-Arrixaca), CIBERCV, 30120 Murcia, Spain
Agustín Javier Simonelli-Muñoz: Department of Nursing Science, Physiotherapy and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 23, 1-11

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: stress; work-related stress; government employees; human characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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