Self-Report Measures: An Overview of Concerns and Limitations of Questionnaire Use in Occupational Stress Research.

As in the case with many domains of organizational behaviuor, occupational stress research has for many years been characterised by the use of self-report methodologies, in particular the written quetionnaire, as the primary means of data collection. Reliance on self-report for the measurement of both dependent and independent variables raises concern about the validity of causal conclusions for a range of reasons, including systematic response distortions, method variance and monomethod bias, and the psychometric properties of quetionnaire scales.