Abstract
To study correlates of presenteeism among Japanese IT employees, a cross-sectional study in 440 employees of four IT companies were studied with a net-based questionnaire survey. A structural regression analysis revealed that presenteeism was directly associated with common mental symptoms and job strain, common mental symptoms mediated the effects of job strain and poor workplace social support as well as high Harm Avoidance and low Self-directedness and Cooperativeness upon presenteeism. IT company workers presenteeism may be a result of complicated effects of common mental symptoms, job strain and poor workplace social support, and personality traits.
Highlights
Health problems have a substantial impact on work productivity
1) Presenteeism is predicted by job strain as well as lack of workplace social support; 2) This effect is mediated by common mental symptoms; 3) High Harm Avoidance and low Self-directedness and Cooperativeness predict presenteeism and common mental symptoms directly and; 4) The effects High Harm Avoidance and low Self-directedness and Cooperativeness on presenteeism and common mental symptoms are mediated by job strain as well as lack of workplace social support
Our first hypothesis “presenteeism was predicted by job strain as well as lack of workplace social support” was partly supported: Presenteeism was predicted by job strain but indirectly by lack of workplace social support
Summary
Health problems have a substantial impact on work productivity. Absence due to disease causes economical loss.How to cite this paper: Kono, Y., Uji, M., & Matsushima, E. (2015). Health problems have a substantial impact on work productivity. Absence due to disease causes economical loss. Presenteeism among Japanese IT Employees: Personality, Temperament and Character, Job Strain and Workplace Support, and Mental Disturbance. In addition to such direct loss due to health problems, indirect impact due to disease has increasingly been paid attention among clinicians and researchers. Productivity loss occurs when employees are still at work but impaired due to health problems. This is called presenteeism (Brown, Gilson, Burton, & Brown, 2011; Cooper & Dewe, 2008). Economic loss due to presenteeism was higher than medical costs in an American study (Goetzel, Long, Ozminkowski, Hawkins, Wang, & Lynch, 2004)
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