根据坚持不懈的认知假设,例如,长时间的激活,通过与工作相关的沉思会损害恢复,从而对员工健康构成风险。性别在多大程度上,年龄,职业或纵向压力暴露可能会改变与工作相关的沉思是一个正在进行的辩论。与工作相关的沉思的分组或纵向比较是否有效,然而,从未测试过。在这份多研究报告中,因此,我们调查了广泛使用的跨性别的工作相关沉思问卷(WRRQ)的测量不变性,年龄,职业,和纵向测量,通过对与工作相关的沉思的现有数据进行二次分析。我们研究了两种语言的WRRQ测量的心理测量特性,并扩展了有关情感反思的法理网络的知识,与员工个人特征相关的解决问题的思考和超然(例如,个性,工作参与,承诺),工作压力源(例如,工作强度,决策纬度,与同事和主管的社会关系)和员工健康结果(例如,幸福,刺激,躯体症状)。多组验证性因素分析显示,英语和德语WRRQ测量的部分标量不变性以及跨性别的完全标量不变性,年龄,职业和1周期间(研究1,n=2,207)。相关分析支持的标准,WRRQ测量的收敛效度和判别效度(研究2,n=4,002)。这些发现代表了跨群体比较与工作相关的认知以及进一步理解不同类型与工作相关的认知的前因和结果的先决条件。
According to the perseverative cognition hypothesis, prolonged activation for example, via work-related rumination impairs recovery and thereby poses a risk to employee health. The extent to which gender, age, occupation or longitudinal stress exposure may alter work-related rumination is an ongoing debate. Whether group or longitudinal comparisons of work-related rumination are valid, however, has never been tested. In this multistudy report, we therefore investigated measurement invariance of the widely used Work-Related Rumination Questionnaire (WRRQ) across gender, age, occupation, and longitudinal measurements by performing secondary analyses of preexisting data on work-related rumination. We examined the psychometric properties of WRRQ measurements in two languages and expand knowledge about the nomological network of affective rumination, problem-solving pondering and
detachment in relation to individual employee characteristics (e.g., personality, work engagement, commitment), job stressors (e.g., work intensity, decision latitude, social relations with colleagues and supervisors) and employee health outcomes (e.g., wellbeing, irritation, somatic symptoms). Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses showed partial scalar invariance of English and German WRRQ measurements and full scalar invariance across gender, age, occupation and over the period of 1 week (Study 1, n = 2,207). Correlation analyses supported criterion, convergent and discriminant validity of WRRQ measurements (Study 2, n = 4,002). These findings represent a prerequisite for comparisons of work-related cognition across groups and further the understanding of the antecedents and outcomes of different types of work-related cognition.