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Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees

BACKGROUND: Using a 1-year prospective design, we examined the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence lasting 1 month or more, before and after adjusting for psychosocial work environment (ie, quantitative job overload, job control, and workplace social support) in Japane...

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Autores principales: Inoue, Akiomi, Tsutsumi, Akizumi, Kachi, Yuko, Eguchi, Hisashi, Shimazu, Akihito, Kawakami, Norito
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Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31308301
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190050
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author Inoue, Akiomi
Tsutsumi, Akizumi
Kachi, Yuko
Eguchi, Hisashi
Shimazu, Akihito
Kawakami, Norito
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Tsutsumi, Akizumi
Kachi, Yuko
Eguchi, Hisashi
Shimazu, Akihito
Kawakami, Norito
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description BACKGROUND: Using a 1-year prospective design, we examined the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence lasting 1 month or more, before and after adjusting for psychosocial work environment (ie, quantitative job overload, job control, and workplace social support) in Japanese employees. METHODS: We surveyed 14,687 employees (7,343 men and 7,344 women) aged 20–66 years, who had not taken long-term sickness absence in the past 3 years, from a financial service company in Japan. The Brief Job Stress Questionnaire, including scales on job satisfaction and psychosocial work environment, was administered, and information on demographic and occupational characteristics (ie, age, gender, length of service, job type, and employment position) was obtained from the personnel records of the surveyed company at baseline (July–August 2015). Subsequently, information on the start dates of long-term sickness absences was obtained during the follow-up period (until July 2016) from the personnel records. Cox’s proportional hazard regression analysis was conducted. RESULTS: After adjusting for demographic and occupational characteristics, those who perceived job dissatisfaction had a significantly higher hazard ratio of long-term sickness absence than those who perceived job satisfaction (hazard ratio 2.91; 95% confidence interval, 1.74–4.87). After additionally adjusting for psychosocial work environment, this association was weakened and no longer significant (hazard ratio 1.55; 95% confidence interval, 0.86–2.80). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence is spurious and explained mainly via psychosocial work environment.
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spelling pubmed-74291512020-09-05 Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees Inoue, Akiomi Tsutsumi, Akizumi Kachi, Yuko Eguchi, Hisashi Shimazu, Akihito Kawakami, Norito J Epidemiol Original Article BACKGROUND: Using a 1-year prospective design, we examined the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence lasting 1 month or more, before and after adjusting for psychosocial work environment (ie, quantitative job overload, job control, and workplace social support) in Japanese employees. METHODS: We surveyed 14,687 employees (7,343 men and 7,344 women) aged 20–66 years, who had not taken long-term sickness absence in the past 3 years, from a financial service company in Japan. The Brief Job Stress Questionnaire, including scales on job satisfaction and psychosocial work environment, was administered, and information on demographic and occupational characteristics (ie, age, gender, length of service, job type, and employment position) was obtained from the personnel records of the surveyed company at baseline (July–August 2015). Subsequently, information on the start dates of long-term sickness absences was obtained during the follow-up period (until July 2016) from the personnel records. Cox’s proportional hazard regression analysis was conducted. RESULTS: After adjusting for demographic and occupational characteristics, those who perceived job dissatisfaction had a significantly higher hazard ratio of long-term sickness absence than those who perceived job satisfaction (hazard ratio 2.91; 95% confidence interval, 1.74–4.87). After additionally adjusting for psychosocial work environment, this association was weakened and no longer significant (hazard ratio 1.55; 95% confidence interval, 0.86–2.80). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence is spurious and explained mainly via psychosocial work environment. Japan Epidemiological Association 2020-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7429151/ /pubmed/31308301 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190050 Text en © 2019 Akiomi Inoue et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Inoue, Akiomi
Tsutsumi, Akizumi
Kachi, Yuko
Eguchi, Hisashi
Shimazu, Akihito
Kawakami, Norito
Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title_full Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title_fullStr Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title_full_unstemmed Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title_short Psychosocial Work Environment Explains the Association of Job Dissatisfaction With Long-term Sickness Absence: A One-Year Prospect Study of Japanese Employees
title_sort psychosocial work environment explains the association of job dissatisfaction with long-term sickness absence: a one-year prospect study of japanese employees
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7429151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31308301
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20190050
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