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The five-factor solutions showed 63.4 and 69.7 % explained variance for frequency and perceived stress items, respectively.
The five challenge stress items include "the amount of time I spend at work", "my work is challenging", "the number of projects and or assignments I have", "the volume of work that must be accomplished in the allotted time", "the amount of responsibility I have", and "time pressure I experience".
The five hindrance stress items are "the degree to which politics rather than performance affects organizational decisions", "the amount of red tape I need to go through to get my job done", "the inability to clearly understand what is expected of me on the job", "the lack of job security I have", and "the degree to which my career seems 'stalled'stalled
One way to verify this interpretation is to attenuate the local bias given by homogeneous stress items, by presenting prime stimuli with mixed stress pattern types.
The targets were the same as in Experiment 2, that is, dominant stress - consistent words, and non-dominant stress -inconsistent words, and word primes were dominant and non-dominant stress items in an equal proportion (see Table 2).
These results, in particular the increase in stress error rate, can be explained assuming that participants were less likely to consult lexical information with nonword primes, and so they were more likely to make stress errors, even for dominant stress items.
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Summing positive responses constituted a stress item score, which was then dichotomized into stressed and non-stressed.
Summing positive responses constituted a stress item score (range: 0 7), which was then grouped into two categories: 0 (n = 393) and ≥1 (n = 791) items positive in the present study.
This could be expected since the current stress item actually encompasses sleep problems.
These data indicated that worsening under stress (item 24), and hearing difficulties due to tinnitus loudness (item 2) were only lowly correlated with tinnitus handicap.
A Finnish study from 2003 among employees 25 64 years of age, in which the single stress item was validated, indicated that the stress symptoms increased with age [ 26].
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