The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey includes twelve items that assess different psychosocial characteristics of work. However, these items are not drawn from an established scale and, therefore, we do not know the best way to combine the items, or indeed the...

The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, including the indirect effect of policy responses, on psychological distress has been the subject of much research. However, there has been little consideration of how levels of population distress rise and fall with the duration and repetition of...

There are occasions when a very short assessment of mental health or distress is needed. Theweekly assessment of distress in Australia during the COVID-19 crisis using the nationallyrepresentative Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) Survey is one example. This paperassesses the psychometric...