TITLE:
Presenteeism among Japanese IT Employees: Personality, Temperament and Character, Job Strain and Workplace Support, and Mental Disturbance
AUTHORS:
Yuko Kono, Masayo Uji, Eisuke Matsushima
KEYWORDS:
Presenteeism, Common Mental Symptoms, Job Strain, Workplace Social Support, Personality
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.15,
December
7,
2015
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.