Job Demands
Dimension 257 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Job Demands measures how much an expression reflects work that is effortful, complex, skill-intensive, or taxing in its cognitive, physical, or attentional requirements. It encompasses workload pressure, responsibility, task complexity, required expertise, sustained concentration, and the need to learn or perform varied tasks.
evidence final name · Content Skill
Minimal Job Demands
Expressions activating this band describe work in broad or evaluative terms, with little direct indication that tasks are especially effortful, complex, or demanding. Work may be mentioned through satisfaction, amount of work, or general environment rather than through concrete requirements.
Mild Job Demands
Expressions activating this band describe noticeable workload or effort requirements, especially time pressure, heavy workload, or the need to invest energy in work. The demands are present as strain or obligation but are not yet defined by complex skill or specialized performance requirements.
Moderate Job Demands
Expressions activating this band describe work that carries responsibility or requires sustained functioning within repetitive or mentally challenging tasks. The demands are characterized by role responsibility, difficulty with complex thinking, training needs, or monotonous task requirements.
High Job Demands
Expressions activating this band describe work that requires competence across varied, physically taxing, or complex activities. The demands are experienced as needing relevant skills, handling complex problems, advising others, or maintaining engagement in a demanding line of work.
Intense Job Demands
Expressions activating this band describe work with strong ongoing requirements for specialized knowledge, learning, creativity, precision, sustained attention, hard effort, or physical exertion. The demands are explicit features of the role itself and define the work as highly skill-based or taxing.
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Minimal Content Skill: Content skill is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse content skill.
Emerging Content Skill: Content skill is present here in a general or mixed form without a single dominant facet. Unlike the band below, where content skill was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band may reflect general or diffuse content skill.
Elevated Content Skill: Content skill is experienced here as observable behavioral patterns associated with problematic or disordered functioning. Unlike the band below, where content skill was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band engage with content skill at a level associated with formal behavioral assessment.
Severe Content Skill: Content skill is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where content skill was characterized by the behavioral form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect content skill at this level of intensity.