Stop Using the Modified Work APGAR to Measure Job Satisfaction

Table 2

The “Mental and Physical Well-being Variables” from the Worker cohort.

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Mental well-being variables (clinical scales from the MMPI)

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*1: Hypochondriasis or overly concerned with health

*2: Depression

*3: Hysteria

*7: Psychasthenia or anxiety

9: Hypomania or lower energy and activity level

LBP: Low back pain clinical scale

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Physical well-being variables (physical variables from the Worker cohort)

*Back pain on the day of the study participation or recent back pain causing work loss in the prior 6 months

Excluded from exercise testing because of a history suggesting cardiovascular disease

Smokes

*Number of months using prescriptions for pain in last 2 years

*Number of doctors subject has seen for back pain in last 2 years

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*Used as the mental and physical well-being scales in the correlation matrix.