Chapter 7 162 Figure 4. Example of a summary of the answers of an employee with hearing loss to the to the Amsterdam Checklist for Hearing and Work questions regarding the job activities that are most frequently performed. Figure 5. Example of a summary of the answers of an employee with hearing loss to the to the Amsterdam Checklist for Hearing and Work questions regarding the workplaces that are most frequently used. Part I: Factors influencing professional functioning The model that is proposed in chapter 1 and confirmed in chapter 3 provides insight into the hearing-related, work-related, and personal factors that directly and indirectly influence the Need For Recovery (NFR) and Listening Effort (LE) of employees with hearing loss. According to the model, the constructs NFR and LE partly overlap, and both are influenced by the factors ‘feeling that something should change at work’ and personal adjustments (PA). This finding suggests that the influence of hearing loss on work functioning seems to depend on the way employees perceive their hearing loss and how they cope with it. On the other hand, the association between the outcomes of hearing tests and NFR was not that strong, a finding that was also found in a non-clinical population (chapter 2).This was true regarding the outcomes of pure-tone audiometry, speech audiometry,
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