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No existing instrument captures what actually happens to neurodivergent employees — climate, disclosure, accommodation, masking — across neurotypes and at work. So we built four. They’re original CultureIQ Labs scales, developed for our capstone study and currently in development — not yet validated.
Original CultureIQ Labs instruments · In development · Not yet validated
For researchers, HR and disability-management professionals, and the clinicians who support neurodivergent employees.
NDACS
Whether a workplace is genuinely neurodiversity-affirming — awareness, acceptance, accommodation responsiveness, and authenticity safety.
Organizational climate · the predictor
DBS
Whether, how, and with what concerns a neurodivergent employee discloses at work — status, strategy, intention, experience, and concerns.
Disclosure · first mediator
WAES
The lived experience of workplace accommodation — both the process and how effective it actually is.
Accommodation · parallel mediator
MAWS
The effort spent suppressing or camouflaging neurodivergent traits at work. Adapted from the validated CAT-Q (Hull et al., 2019) for the workplace.
Masking · parallel mediator
Item content stays private while the scales are in validation.
The scales were built to test a single model from the lab’s capstone research: how a neurodiversity-affirming climate shapes brain-health outcomes through disclosure, accommodation, and masking — for neurodivergent employees in Canadian workplaces.
It’s a dual-perspective design — surveying both neurodivergent employees and the HR and disability-management practitioners who support them — grounded in the Job Demands-Resources model, minority stress theory, social identity theory, and Goffman’s work on stigma.
All four scales were developed following established psychometric methodology (DeVellis & Thorpe, 2022) with content-validity indexing. Full psychometric validation is still under way — so we don’t present them as finished, ready-to-use instruments, and the items stay private during validation. When they’re validated, we’ll make them openly available.
For the full model, the theoretical framework, and the study design, read the capstone research overview.