Item Response Warehouse / Tables / qiang_2025_workplace_friendshipqiang_2025_workplace_friendship
1,584 responses from 396 respondents to 4 items.
About this table
Description Workplace friendship scale, Chinese retail staff, 4 items, 1-5, N=396 Reference Qiang, Q., et al. (2025). Does the perception of red tape affect the emotional labor of frontline retail staff in China? A post-COVID-19 era. PLOS ONE. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0327359 Licence CC BY 4.0 Source data https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0327359
Size and shape
Responses 1,584 Respondents 396 Items 4 Response categories 5 Responses per respondent 4 Responses per item 396 Density 1 Longitudinal FALSE
Classification
sample Workplace measurement tool Survey/questionnaire item format Likert Scale/selected response primary language(s) chi
Item text
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
Instrument Qiang et al. (2025) frontline retail staff survey, workplace friendship block (questionnaire items 33, 34, 35, 36, 37) Mean words per item 7.800 Mean characters per item 44 Mean characters per response 7.400 Flesch-Kincaid grade level 4.396
Columns
cov_age cov_gender id item resp
Get the data
Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("qiang_2025_workplace_friendship")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("qiang_2025_workplace_friendship")
Version and provenance
IRW version v393 Redivis dataset item_response_warehouse_3 v7.0 Redivis dataset DOI 10.57761/pqqn-pm43 Manifest pin for this IRW version v7.0 Metadata source irw_meta v23.0
Part of the Item Response Warehouse , IRW v393. This page describes the table as released in item_response_warehouse_3 v7.0.