Psychometric properties of the Arabicized version of the job content questionnaire, by Robar Karzak

Abstract

The present research aims to determinie the psychometric properties of validity and
reliability of Karazek's content questionnaire (JCQ) version 27 items on the Algerian
environment.For this purpose, the original version has been translated into Arabic
(translated and back translated complying with the JCQ usage policy) then the translated
version has been applied after making sure that it contains no mistakes on a random
sample made up of (163) primary school teachers from Oum El Bouaghi. The findings
about the validity of the translated questionnaire showed evidences of high internal
consistency between items and their related main and sub dimensions, also between
dimensions and the total score. The translated questionnaire presented also a high degree
of discriminant validity too, and the factorial analysis has revealed 7 factors. Regarding
Reliability, the split half reliability coefficient was estimated to (0.699).The Alpha
Cronbach coefficient ranged between (0.55 and 0.802). The test-re-test reliability
correlation coefficients were high ranging between (0.884 and 0.683)