Table 7. Polychoric correlation coefficients between psychosocial work environment (job demands and job resources) and outcomes measured by using the BJSQ/New BJSQ scales: a national representative sample of employees of Japan in 2010/2011 †.

Scales ‡	Psychological stress reactions	Physical stress reactions	Work engagement	Workplace social capital	Workplace harassment
Job demands
1. Quantitative job overload	0.361**	0.251**	–0.050	0.072**	0.207**
2. Qualitative job overload	0.240**	0.174**	–0.241**	–0.056*	0.147**
3. Physical demands	0.142**	0.103**	–0.110**	0.022	0.126**
4. Interpersonal conflict	0.494**	0.282**	0.305**	0.570**	0.531**
5. Poor physical environment	0.268**	0.179**	0.259**	0.337**	0.240**
6. Emotional demands	0.583**	0.384**	0.172**	0.251**	0.419**
7. Role conflict	0.505**	0.319**	0.236**	0.410**	0.431**
8. Work-self balance (negative)	0.499**	0.317**	0.160**	0.220**	0.275**
Job resources: task-level
9. Job control	0.329**	0.190**	0.290**	0.241**	0.219**
10. Suitable jobs	0.411**	0.171**	0.610**	0.361**	0.254**
11. Skill utilization	0.142**	0.092**	0.326**	0.193**	0.157**
12. Meaningfulness of work	0.331**	0.142**	0.738**	0.455**	0.183**
13. Role clarity	0.245**	0.103**	0.328**	0.394**	0.153**
14. Career opportunity	0.300**	0.150**	0.578**	0.425**	0.162**
15. Novelty	–0.141**	–0.096**	0.151**	0.017	–0.098**
16. Predictability	0.208**	0.124**	0.229**	0.220**	0.091**
Job resources: workgroup-level
17. Supervisor support	0.360**	0.209**	0.395**	0.409**	0.314**
18. Coworker support	0.305**	0.180**	0.321**	0.459**	0.264**
19. [Support from family and friends]	0.196**	0.105**	0.175**	0.210**	0.164**
20. Monetary/status reward	0.337**	0.241**	0.331**	0.427**	0.223**
21. Esteem reward	0.390**	0.237**	0.438**	0.511**	0.341**
22. Job security	0.361**	0.248**	0.306**	0.332**	0.326**
23. Leadership	0.299**	0.170**	0.429**	0.461**	0.184**
24. Interactional justice	0.376**	0.211**	0.420**	0.503**	0.362**
25. Workplace where people compliment each other	0.342**	0.189**	0.434**	0.454**	0.302**
26. Workplace where mistakes are acceptable	0.322**	0.177**	0.480**	0.458**	0.240**
27. Collective efficacy	0.320**	0.165**	0.482**	0.518**	0.188**
Job resources: organizational-level
28. Trust with management	0.366**	0.200**	0.421**	0.547**	0.329**
29. Preparedness for change	0.341**	0.159**	0.393**	0.501**	0.247**
30. Procedural justice	0.303**	0.209**	0.354**	0.477**	0.245**
31. Respect for individuals	0.373**	0.246**	0.514**	0.510**	0.235**
32. Fair personnel evaluation	0.307**	0.193**	0.396**	0.505**	0.205**
33. Diversity	0.285**	0.156**	0.342**	0.447**	0.222**
34. Career development	0.302**	0.181**	0.477**	0.545**	0.211**
35. Work-self balance (positive)	0.435**	0.244**	0.662**	0.417**	0.190**

* p<0.05, ** p<0.01. No asterisk means p>0.05. † Based on data from 1,398 respondents who completed all the scales. Note that all scale scores were converted so that higher scores indicate a better status. See text for more detail. ‡ [ ] indicates non-work environment.