Validation of the Occupational Depression Inventory in Sweden

BMC Public Health

Research

Farzaneh Badinlou¹  Tobias Lundgren¹  Markus Jansson-Fröjmark¹  Renzo Bianchi²  Irvin Sam Schonfeld³ 

[1] Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, and Stockholm Health Care Services, Region of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway;Department of Psychology, The City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York City, NY, USA;

关键词: Anxiety;    Demand-control imbalance;    Effort-reward imbalance;    Factor analysis;    Job support;    Measurement invariance;    Mokken scale analysis;    Work stress;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-023-16417-w

 received in 2022-11-04, accepted in 2023-07-28,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe Occupational Depression Inventory (ODI) was recently devised to assess depressive symptoms that individuals specifically attribute to their work. One purpose of the ODI is to overcome limitations in current assessments of job-related distress. This study aimed to validate the Swedish version of the ODI.MethodsThe study involved 365 individuals employed in Sweden. In addition to the ODI, the study included the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire, the Demand-Control-Support Questionnaire, the GAD-2, and the PHQ-9. We inquired into the factorial validity, dimensionality, scalability, test-score reliability, criterion validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and measurement invariance of the ODI.ResultsExploratory structural equation modeling bifactor analysis indicated that the ODI’s Swedish version meets the requirements for essential unidimensionality (e.g., explained common variance = 0.872). Measurement invariance held across sexes, age groups, and occupational categories. The instrument exhibited strong scalability (e.g., H = 0.662). The observed total scores thus accurately ranked respondents on the latent continuum underlying the scale. The ODI’s total-score reliability was high (e.g., McDonald’s ω = 0.929). Speaking to the instrument’s criterion validity, we found occupational depression to correlate, in the expected direction, with various work (e.g., job support) and nonwork (e.g., general anxiety) variables. Occupational depression showed large correlations with effort-reward imbalance (r = 0.613) and demand-control imbalance (r = 0.566) at work. Multiple regression analyses supported these associations further. As expected, we observed both a degree of convergent validity and a degree of discriminant validity when examining the ODI against the PHQ-9, an attribution-free measure of depression.DiscussionThis study indicates that the ODI performs well within the Swedish context, consistent with the findings obtained in other linguistic and geographic contexts. The ODI promises to help researchers, practitioners, and public health decision-makers address job-related distress more effectively.

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