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Front Psychol. 2018 Apr 30;9:584. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00584. eCollection 2018.

Validating the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ-II) Using Set-ESEM: Identifying Psychosocial Risk Factors in a Sample of School Principals.

Frontiers in psychology

Theresa Dicke, Herbert W Marsh, Philip Riley, Philip D Parker, Jiesi Guo, Marcus Horwood

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  2. Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 29760670 PMCID: PMC5936966 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00584

Abstract

School principals world-wide report high levels of strain and attrition resulting in a shortage of qualified principals. It is thus crucial to identify psychosocial risk factors that reflect principals' occupational wellbeing. For this purpose, we used the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ-II), a widely used self-report measure covering multiple psychosocial factors identified by leading occupational stress theories. We evaluated the COPSOQ-II regarding factor structure and longitudinal, discriminant, and convergent validity using latent structural equation modeling in a large sample of Australian school principals (

Keywords: COPSOQ-II; ESEM; burnout; occupational wellbeing; psychometrics; psychosocial risk factors; school principals

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