About COPSOQ
The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) is an internationally recognised tool for assessing psychosocial factors at work. Used in 48 countries, it provides a reliable, evidence-based way to understand risks and protective factors, helping organisations create safer, healthier and more productive workplaces.
What is COPSOQ?
The COPSOQ is a multidimensional questionnaire designed to assess psychosocial working conditions and related outcomes.
Developed through international research collaboration, COPSOQ has been applied across countries, industries and occupational groups, providing a common framework for research and workplace assessment.
Rather than treating the psychosocial work environment as a single construct, COPSOQ measures distinct aspects of work, including demands, work organisation, interpersonal relationships and leadership, the work–individual interface, social capital and health and wellbeing.
A multidimensional approach
Psychosocial working conditions involve multiple aspects of how work is designed, organised and managed. COPSOQ measures these as distinct dimensions, providing a detailed picture of the psychosocial work environment.
This allows broad areas such as job demands, work organisation and leadership to be examined in greater detail, helping to distinguish the specific working conditions that may contribute to organisational findings.
What does COPSOQ measure?
COPSOQ III provides a multidimensional framework for assessing psychosocial working conditions, health and wellbeing. The international questionnaire includes a broad range of dimensions covering different aspects of the psychosocial work environment.
Explore the COPSOQ III dimensions below.
The dimensions shown above describe the international COPSOQ III framework. COPSOQ AU builds on this established framework for application in the Australian context.
COPSOQ in Australia
COPSOQ AU builds on the international COPSOQ framework, bringing together established methodology, Australian research and reference values to support the assessment and interpretation of psychosocial working conditions in Australian workplaces.
The Australian approach maintains connection with the international COPSOQ research tradition while supporting application within the Australian workplace and research context.
An international research foundation
COPSOQ has been developed through international research collaboration and is widely used in research on psychosocial working conditions across countries, industries and occupational groups.
Its multidimensional framework supports research examining working conditions, their relationships with health and organisational outcomes, differences between populations, and changes over time.
COPSOQ Australia Team