Work Stress

§2The established instruments

What the field already uses — named and cited, not reproduced (item wording is copyrighted and withheld pending clearance).

• Work Tension Scale — House and Rizzo (1972)
• Occupational Stress Scale — House, McMichael, Wells, Kaplan, and Landerman (1979)
• Inventory of Stressful Events — Motowidlo, S. J., Packard, J. S., Manning, M. R.
• Job Stress Scale — Parker and Decotiis (1983)
• Commute Strain Scale — Kluger (1998)
• Work-Specific Control Problems — Remondet and Hansson (1991)
• Perceived Job Stressors — Kanner, Kafry, and Pines (1978)
• Work-Related Depression, Anxiety, and Irritation — Caplan, Cobb, French, Van Harrison, and Pinneau (1980)
• Industrial Relations Event Scale — Kelloway, Barling, and Shah (1993)
• Stress Diagnostic Survey — Ivancevich and Matteson (1980)
• Burnout Measure — Pines and Aronson (1988)
• Job-Related Tension Index — Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, and Snoek (1964)

§3The math on what we know

Synthesized priors from the live registry: pooled r, studies (k), total N, top study grade, and heterogeneity. Rows flagged for heterogeneity or single-study evidence are directional, not settled — read them as a central tendency.

What drives work stress

What work stress predicts

§4As a model node

Where work stress sits when you drop it into a model — what feeds it, what it moves. Read left to right as a small, actionable causal claim.