Table 4 Job stressors: rotated factors, item loadings, and reliabilities

Factor I: Role ambiguity/lack of control

Not knowing what your supervisor thinks of you, how he/she evaluates your performance

.888

Not knowing just what the people around you expect of you

.843

Being unclear on just what the scope and responsibilities of your job are

.806

Feeling unable to influence your immediate supervisor’s decisions and actions that affect you

.786

Not knowing what opportunities for advancement or promotion exist to you

.661

.501

Feeling that you have too little authority to carry out the responsibilities assigned to you

.645

.558

Factor II: Overload

Feeling that your job tends to interfere with your family life

.886

Thinking that you’ll not be able to satisfy the conflicting demands of various people over you

.868

Thinking that the amount of work you have to do may interfere with how well it gets done

.823

Feeling that you have too heavy work load, one that you can’t possibly finish during an ordinary day

.816

Eigenvalue

6.893

1.081

Variance (%) (Total: 79.737%)

68.926

10.811

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin MSA

.902

Bartlett’s test of sphericity

1963.157**

Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha)

.931

.940