Table 2.

Study Instruments.

Variable	Instrument	Scoring	# of Items	Score Range	Cronbach’s α (Current Study)
Psychological demands	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek et al., 1998).	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 4 = Strongly Agree Psychological demands = [(Q19 + Q20) × 3 + (15 − (Q22 + Q23 + Q26)) × 2]	5	12–48	0.74
Decision Latitude	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek et al., 1998).	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 4 = Strongly Agree Decision latitude = skill discretion + decision-making authority), where: Skill discretion = [q1 + q3 + q5 + q7 + q9 + (5 − q2)] × 2 Decision-making authority = [2 × (q4 + q6 + q8)] × 2	9	24–96	0.69
Supervisor support	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek et al., 1998)	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 4 = Strongly Agree	4	4–16	0.92
Coworker support	Job Content Questionnaire (Karasek et al., 1998)	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 4 = Strongly Agree	4	4–16	0.78
Emotional Intelligence	Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (Schutte et al., 1998)	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree	33	33–165	0.85
		Total and subscale scores are calculated by taking the sum of all items.
		Perceptions of Emotions	10		0.81
		Managing Own Emotions	9		0.83
		Managing others’ emotions	8		0.66
		Utilizations of emotions	6		0.67
Compassion satisfaction	ProQoL-21 (Heritage et al., 2018)	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = never to 5 = very often Total score calculated by recoding and taking the sum of 10 items.	10	10–50	0.92
Compassion Fatigue	ProQoL-21 (Heritage et al., 2018)	Items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 = never to 5 = very often Total score calculated by recoding and taking the sum of 11 items.	11	11–55	0.94