Psychosocial well-being index and sick leave in the workplace: a structural equation modeling of Wittyfit data.

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-24 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1385708

Rémi Colin-Chevalier, Bruno Pereira, Samuel Dewavrin, Thomas Cornet, Julien Steven Baker, Frédéric Dutheil

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Abstract

Background: Psychosocial well-being, which assesses emotional, psychological, social, and collective well-being, could help measure risk and duration of sick leave in workers.

Objective: This study aims to build a structural equation model of a psychosocial well-being index based on 10 psychosocial factors and investigate its association with sick leave.

Methods: Data of workers using Wittyfit was collected in 2018. Psychosocial factors (job satisfaction, atmosphere, recognition, work-life balance, meaning, work organization, values, workload, autonomy, and stress) were self-assessed using health-related surveys, while sick leave records were provided by volunteer companies.

Results: A total of 1,399 workers were included in the study (mean age: 39.4 ± 9.4, mean seniority: 9.2 ± 7.7, 49.8% of women, 12.0% managers). The prevalence of absenteeism was 34.5%, with an average of 8.48 ± 28.7 days of sick leave per worker. Structural equation modeling facilitated computation of workers' psychosocial well-being index (AIC: 123,016.2, BIC: 123,231.2, RMSEA: 0.03). All factors, except workload (p = 0.9), were influential, with meaning (β = 0.72, 95% CI 0.69-0.74), values (0.69, 0.67-0.70) and job satisfaction (0.64, 0.61-0.66) being the main drivers (p < 0.001). Overall, psychosocial well-being was found to be a protective factor for sick leave, with a 2% decreased risk (OR = 0.98, 95% CI 0.98-0.99, p < 0.001) and duration (IRR = 0.98, 95% CI 0.97-0.99, p < 0.001) per psychosocial well-being index point.

Conclusion: The psychosocial well-being index provides a measure of psychosocial well-being and helps predict sick leave in the workplace. This new indicator could be used to analyze the association between psychosocial well-being and other health outcomes.

Clinical trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov, identifier NCT02596737.

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.