Table 2. Polychoric correlation coefficients between psychosocial work environment (job demands and job resources) and outcomes measured by the current BJSQ and the short version of the 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. Emotional demands	0.530**	0.331**	0.164**	0.200**	0.379**
2. Role conflict	0.448**	0.286**	0.195**	0.376**	0.420**
3. Work-self balance (negative)	0.503**	0.305**	0.167**	0.226**	0.298**
Job resources: task-level
4. Role clarity	0.156**	0.047	0.329**	0.278**	0.130**
5. Career opportunity	0.329**	0.162**	0.594**	0.402**	0.158**
Job resources: workgroup-level
6. Monetary/status reward	0.317**	0.243**	0.264**	0.378**	0.173**
7. Esteem reward	0.370**	0.224**	0.429**	0.454**	0.302**
8. Job security	0.237**	0.154**	0.181**	0.239**	0.215**
9. Leadership	0.293**	0.149**	0.449**	0.471**	0.222**
10. Interactional justice	0.375**	0.209**	0.423**	0.484**	0.340**
11. Workplace where people compliment each other	0.326**	0.189**	0.429**	0.437**	0.301**
12. Workplace where mistakes are acceptable	0.314**	0.180**	0.413**	0.414**	0.256**
Job resources: organizational-level
13. Trust with management	0.358**	0.207**	0.391**	0.517**	0.314**
14. Preparedness for change	0.292**	0.153**	0.365**	0.465**	0.207**
15. Respect for individuals	0.377**	0.237**	0.506**	0.536**	0.275**
16. Fair personnel evaluation	0.291**	0.194**	0.359**	0.444**	0.196**
17. Diversity	0.269**	0.142**	0.353**	0.414**	0.207**
18. Career development	0.301**	0.176**	0.489**	0.513**	0.194**
19. Work-self balance (positive)	0.486**	0.259**	0.677**	0.435**	0.204**

** p<0.01. No asterisk means p>0.05. † Based on data from 1,398 respondents who completed all the scales at baseline. ‡ Each scale (or item) score was converted so that the higher score indicates better state. See text for more details on scoring.