Job Stress Scale ( Muschalla, Heldmann, and Fay 2013)
(reliability .82)
Macovei, C.M. (2016) Measuring job anxiety in military organization. International Conference Knowledge-Based
Organization, 22(2) 451-456.
0-do not agree at all
1- do not agree
3- Neutral
4- agree
5- agree fully
Indicators 5 4 3 2 1
1. The circumstances at my workplace make me sick.
2. When thinking about my workplace, everything in my body is tense.
3. My state of health causes problems for me in my working day.
4. I suffer from the fact that I never know what comes up next at my workplace.
5. When imagining having to pass a complete working day at this workplace, I get
feelings of panic.
6. In special situations at the workplace I am afraid of getting symptoms like
trembling, blushing, sweating, heartbeating.
7. I have experienced that in special situations at my workplace, I get symptoms like
trembling, blushing, sweating, heartbeating.
8. I have miserable feelings at my workplace which restrict my capacities for
achievement.
9. I often have pictures and memories in front of my inner eye which remind me of
worst experiences that happened at the workplace.
10. I rather take a roundabout way insead of passing the street where my workplace is
situated.
11. I feel overtaxed with my work.
12. My working circumstances are negative stress for me.
13. I suffer because I cannot feel sure that everything will not be changed at work.
14. Colleagues or family have already told me that I should not always worry that
much about work.
15. At my work, everything always ends remaining at me.
16. I do not know how to react when I am confronted with new tasks at work.
17. I have the feeling that my knowledge is not sufficient for the work I am carrying
out.
18. The conditions under which I work make me nervous.
19. My sleep is worse before working days in contrast to non-working-days.
20. Also in my freetime I continue thinking about work.
21. My work ruins my state of health.
22. I feel tense when entering public places (like the supermarket of my town) where
I could meet colleagues or superiors.
23. Whenever possible, I avoid coming near to the site of my workplace.
24. In my work one does not get the proper salary for the achievements that one has
to do.
25. When I see special colleagues or superior only from far away at work, I try not to
meet them directly.
26. When I see special colleagues or superior only from far away outside my
workplace, I try not to meet them directly.
27. My colleagues are looking after themselves and the work remains with me.
28. I had to go on sick leave once or for several times because I could not stand any
longer the problems at my workplace.
29. If I stay any longer at this workplace, this will cause harm to my health.
30. On my way to my workplace I would rather turn and walk back.
31. At the workplace I have got problems with clients. (or patients, students,
customers…)
32. The nearer I come to my workplace, the more I get symptoms, like trembling,
sweating, heatwaves or heartbeating.
33. After work I hurry up more than others just to get away from that place.
34. In special situations at work I regularly get panic.
35. I believe that – no matter how engaged one is working - the workplace is always
endangered.
36. Special situations at work remind me of bad situations in the past and make me
nervous.
37. I have the idea my impairments cause deficits in my working achievements.
38. I have got problems with one or more superiors.
39. My colleagues exploit me.
40. My superior exploits me.
41. I have once experienced a terrible event at the workplace which is still present in
my mind and makes me feel frightened at work.
42. When I have to speak with colleagues or superiors I am afraid of getting
symptoms like e.g. trembling, sweating, heartbeating, blushing.
43. I do many mistakes at work or I am too slow.
44. I feel unsure when I have to work together with special persons.
45. I am suffering from the fact that I am always left in unclearness what will come
up to me at work.
46. I get panic when I am ordered to come to my superior.
47. I feel unsure when somebody observes me while I am working.
48. While working, I am always paying attention what could happen next.
49. At this workplace, they make me stand outside.
50. The stress at my workplace is causing ill health.
51. My superior is harassing me.
52. My colleagues are harassing me.
53. If one becomes unemployed nowadays, one will never find a job again.
54. At my workplace I am in the mercy of persons´ arbitrary behaviors and
unfairness.
55. I have the idea that I can no more get along with changes at my workplace.
56. At my workplace they intentionally made awful working circumstances for me.
57. My thoughts about work problems hinder me to carry out other allday activities.
58. I have health-related impairments which reduce my capacities in working
achievement.
59. I am not enough qualified for new tasks at work.
60. I fear that colleagues could judge me negatively because of my health
impairments.
61. I believe it is realistic that nowadays one is easily fired because of times of
absence.
62. At the workplace, I have got problems with one or more colleagues.
63. I feel severly uncomfortable and tense when I am at my workplace.
64. I feel severly uncomfortable and tense when I think of my workplace.
65. It is only since a stressful event that I have this feeling of tension and
uncomfortability at the workplace.
66. With my acute health problems, I normally should not be able to work at this
workplace.
67. I am always worrying about minor matters in my work and during all the
working day.
68. I am suffering from the worries which I cannot put away or stop.
69. Being out of work means for me loosing all my image and reputation.
70. A loss of my workplace is/would be threatening.
Global job-anxiety 63,64
Anticipatory anxiety 2,5,6, 19, 48
Avoidance 22, 2, 10, 28, 30, 33
Conditioned anxiety 65, 36, 41, 9
Fear of exploitation 39, 40, 15, 24, 27
Social anxiety 25, 26, 42, 44, 46, 47, 31, 62, 38
Perception of persecution 49, 51, 52, 54, 56
Hypochondriac anxiety 21, 29, 66, 1, 50
Panic 7, 32, 34
Function-related Impairment 58, 3
Anxiety of insufficiency 11, 12, 18, 17, 43, 59, 37, 8, 60
Fear of change 16, 4, 13, 45, 55
Worrying 67, 14, 20, 57, 68
Fear of existence 61, 35, 69. 70, 53
