Table 2.

TICS-E scale properties for the total sample

						Total sample N = 484
			Reliabilities
Scale	Items	Rangea	Cronbach’s α	Split- halfb	rit range	M	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	W
Work Overload	8	0–31 (0–32)	.89	.86	.59–.78	15.60	6.26	−0.20	0.38	0.99**
Social Overload	6	0–24 (0–24)	.87	.85	.62–.72	8.15	5.08	0.29	−0.33	0.97***
Pressure to Perform	9	0–35 (0–36)	.86	.84	.50–.68	17.64	6.23	−0.60	0.7	0.97***
Work Discontent	8	0–32 (0–32)	.86	.85	.56–.67	11.83	5.55	0.14	0.02	0.99***
Excessive Demands at Work	6	0–24 (0–24)	.85	.84	.52–.74	7.88	4.50	0.36	−0.12	0.98***
Lack of Social Recognition	4	0–16 (0–16)	.87	.87	.67–.80	5.36	3.14	0.32	0.05	0.97***
Social Tensions	6	0–24 (0–24)	.88	.86	.62–.75	5.81	4.26	0.57	0.05	0.95***
Social Isolation	6	0–24 (0–24)	.87	.86	.50–.77	8.85	4.90	0.35	0.11	0.98***
Chronic Worrying	4	0–16 (0–16)	.91	.91	.65–.85	6.80	4.17	0.26	−0.59	0.97***
Chronic Stress Screening Scale	12	0–46 (0–48)	.92	.82	.52–.78	19.87	9.43	0.08	−0.20	0.99***

Note. ^apossible range of values in parentheses; ^bSplit-half reliabilities adjusted according to Spearman-Brown; r_it range Range of item-scale correlations, W Test statistic related to the Shapiro-Wilk test

** = .05; *** = .001