Emotional dissonance and sickness absence: a prospective study of employees working with clients

Indregard, Anne-Marthe Rustad; Knardahl, Stein; Nielsen, Morten Birkeland

doi:10.1007/s00420-016-1176-9

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“…Role conflict is generally considered to be a risk factor for illhealth [25]. The current findings support this notion (Table 2) and are in line with previous studies [24,30,31]. However, effects of exposure to a workplace terrorist attack on subsequent sickness absence seems to be more pronounced with lower levels of role conflict than higher.…”

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Effects of exposure to workplace terrorism on subsequent doctor certified sickness absence, and the modifying role of psychological and social work factors: a combined survey and register study

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Background: Studies have shown that terrorist attacks affect the mental and physical health of persons exposed to terrorism. When terror strikes at the workplace where people spend much time, and should feel safe, the health consequences for those affected might be severe. The aim of the study was to determine whether psychological and social work factors moderates effects of exposure to a workplace terrorist attack on subsequent doctor-certified sickness absence. Methods: The study design combined survey data with register data on sickness absence. Data on exposure to the attack, and psychosocial working conditions were collected by a web-based questionnaire 10 months after the attack. Survey data was linked to registry data on doctor-certified sickness absence over the one-year time period following baseline. The survey response rate was 56% (n = 1974), where 80.6% (1591) gave consent to link survey data to data on sickness absence. Exposure to the attack was assessed as "Directly-", or "Indirectly exposed". Psychological and social work factors were measured by the General Questionnaire for Psychological and Social factors at Work (QPS Nordic). Data were analyzed with negative binominal hurdle regressions. Results: Direct exposure to the attack increased the odds of becoming sick-listed if role clarity was average (OR = 1.50) or high (OR = 2.13), but not if low (OR = 1.17). Direct exposure was associated with higher sickness absence rates if control over work pace was low (RR = 1.61). Role conflict, support from co-workers, and-superior showed weaker evidence of moderating effects of exposure on sickness absence.

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“…While physical work conditions are the most likely explanations for the socioeconomic gradient in LTSA (Christensen et al 2008;Löve et al 2013), also psychosocial factors are pertinent (Melchior et al 2005;Niedhammer et al 2008). Similarly, certain physical and psychosocial hazards have also been linked to heightened risk of LTSA for caring work (Aagestad et al 2016) and researchers have particularly emphasized the emotional demands as straining (Indregard et al 2017;Rugulies et al 2007).…”

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“…Research on burnout has found that caring work results in stress and exhaustion (Barron & West 2007;Wieclaw et al 2006), and burnout is associated with sickness absence (Ahola et al 2008;Borritz et al 2010). Emotional labor is also associated with sickness absence, both in the general working population Lund et al 2006) and in human service work (Indregard et al 2017;Rugulies et al, 2007). In addition to the psychosocial factors associated with burnout and emotional labor, threats of violence and actual violence (Aagestad, Tyssen, et al 2014;Michélsen et al 2014;Rugulies et al 2007) as well as physical strain (Andersen et al 2012) have been found to predict sickness absence among workers caring for clients.…”

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Long-term Sickness Absence Among Professionals: Investigating Gender, Socioeconomic Position and Care Work

Madsen¹

2019

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This study investigates whether the risk of long-term sickness absence among professionals depends upon their socioeconomic position and whether they do caring work. It also explores whether the variation in risk can be attributed to sociodemographic and labor market factors. The event history analysis is based on longitudinal register data from the entire population of Norwegian professionals from 2003 to 2013. The results showed that both low socioeconomic position and being a care worker was associated with long-term sickness absence. The group with the highest risk was professionals of lower socioeconomic position doing caring work. While the results were similar for men and women, the relative risk of sickness absence was higher for male professionals. Sociodemographic and labor market factors partly explained the observed association, and even more so for men. Several candidate explanations for the remaining association as well as potential implications for social policy are discussed.

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“…However, they have been different clarifications on what it means to be in a particular mood or emotional state. For instance, being in a particular mood can be explained by generalised affective states (Indregard, Knardahl & Nielsen, 2016). Precisely, while the constellation of factors may be present to influence an individual mood, the mood itself is not fixed on any exact object (Fernández-Berrocal, Gutiérrez-Cobo, Rodriguez-Corrales & Cabello, 2017).…”

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Environmental Factors and Affective Well-Being Influence on Mine Workers Absenteeism in South Africa

Keyser¹,

Adewumi²,

Fourie³

2019

Eur. j. interdiscip. stud.

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Human resources remain the most important and valuable assets of every organisation. In effect, the strategic monitoring and management of related environmental factors and employees’ affective well-being for continued presence at work are becoming increasingly fundamental. The mining industry is characterised with different environmental factors and affective well-being puzzle that may likely affect employees’ turnaround time at work. While available studies have largely investigated how environmental factors predict employee’s well-being, what is unclear is how environmental factors and affective well-being determines employee’s absenteeism from work. Using a quantitative study, this study examines how environmental factors and affective well-being influence workers absenteeism in South African mine industry. A total of 280 mineworkers were randomly selected using a descriptive survey of the probability sampling technique. The retrieved data were analysed using both the simple and multivariate regression analysis. The findings revealed that both environmental factors and affective well-being do not predict mine workers absenteeism, although environmental factors show more variation in employee’s absenteeism than affective well-being. Similarly, the different environmental factors including exposure to noise, dust, vibration, temperature and heavy lifting do not show any evidence to have predicted mine workers turnaround time at work, except hazardous materials. The study concludes that mitigating the consequence provoked by hazardous materials on mine workers will significantly increase employees’ presence at work. Thus, the study makes a case for the revitalisation of the South African mining industry, especially in the area of setting out modalities for the control of strenuous environmental factors, particularly hazardous materials in the workplace.

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Emotional dissonance and sickness absence: a prospective study of employees working with clients

Cited by 27 publications

References 54 publications

Effects of exposure to workplace terrorism on subsequent doctor certified sickness absence, and the modifying role of psychological and social work factors: a combined survey and register study

Effects of exposure to workplace terrorism on subsequent doctor certified sickness absence, and the modifying role of psychological and social work factors: a combined survey and register study

Long-term Sickness Absence Among Professionals: Investigating Gender, Socioeconomic Position and Care Work

Environmental Factors and Affective Well-Being Influence on Mine Workers Absenteeism in South Africa

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