The Use of Parsimonious Questionnaires in Occupational Health Surveillance: Psychometric Properties of the Short Italian Version of the Effort/Reward Imbalance Questionnaire

Table 3

Associations of the scales of the short effort-reward imbalance questionnaire with self-rated general health and job satisfaction (multiple regression analyses).

ERI component	Self-rated general health			Job satisfaction
		Corrected for age B			Corrected for age B
	Uncorrected B (P)	(P)		Uncorrected B (P)	(P)
		Male	Female		Male	Female
Effort	−0.128 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.07 (𝑃<0.05)	−0.064 (𝑃<0.05)	−0.105 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.141 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.080 (𝑃<0.01)
Reward	0.192 (𝑃<0.001)	0.198 (𝑃<0.001)	0.142 (𝑃<0.001)	0.368 (𝑃<0.001)	0.383 (𝑃<0.001)	0.355 (𝑃<0.001)
Overcommitment	0.119 (𝑃<0.001)	0.119 (𝑃<0.002)	0.095 (𝑃<0.001)	0.038 (n.s.)	0.039 (n.s.)	0.034 (n.s.)
Effort/Reward ratio	−0.273 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.256 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.166 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.390 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.427 (𝑃<0.001)	−0.365 (𝑃<0.001)