Authors: Kaori Fujishiro Paul A Landsbergis Ana V DiezRoux Karen Hinckley Stukovsky Sandi Shrager Sherry Baron
Publish Date: 2010/06/27
Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 533-540
Abstract
Immigrants have a different social context from those who stay in their home country or those who were born to the country that immigrants now live Cultural theory of risk perception suggests that social context influences one’s interpretation of questionnaire items We examined psychometric properties of job control and job demand scales with US and foreignborn workers who preferred English Spanish or Chinese n = 3114 mean age = 581 Across all groups the job control scale had acceptable Cronbach’s alpha 078–083 and equivalent factor loadings ΔCFI 001 Immigrants had low alpha 042–065 for the job demands scale regardless of language education or age of migration Two jobdemand items had different factor loadings across groups Among immigrants both scales had inconsistent associations with perceived job stress and selfrated health For a better understanding of immigrants’ job stress the concept of job demands should be expanded and immigrants’ expectations for job control exploredThe MultiEthnic Study of Atherosclerosis MESA was funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute N01HC95159 through N01HC95165 and N01HC95169 The coding of occupational information was conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NORA FY08 CRN SLB8 The authors would like to thank the MESA participants and staff Gilbert C Gee Catherine A Heaney and Annekatrin Hoppe provided valuable comments on earlier drafts
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