Abstract
Objectives: To elucidate the role and pathways of psychosocial home demands, psychosocial home resources, and psychosocial job resources in relation to sickness absence among nurses working in residential elder care. Methods: Longitudinal (SEM) analyses with bootstrapping with a 1 year follow-up among 365 nurses were performed. Survey data and registered sickness absence data were used. Results: A complete mediation model showed the best fit. More psychosocial job resources (b = -1.50) like "work schedule fit with private life" predicted less and more psychosocial home demands (b = 0.62) predicted more psychosomatic health complaints. The job resources and home demands predicted sickness absence duration and episodes 1-year later mediated through nurses' health. Conclusions: More attention is needed for nurses' work schedule fit with private life and their home demands to potentially reduce health-related sickness absence among nurses working in residential elder care.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | E445-E454 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2018 |
Keywords
- conservation of resources theory
- longitudinal study
- mediation analysis
- motivation
- psychosomatic health complaints
- registered sickness absence
- structural equation modeling
- survey
- EMPLOYEE WORKTIME CONTROL
- SOCIAL SUPPORT
- EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION
- OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH
- DOMESTIC WORK
- MENTAL-HEALTH
- FIT INDEXES
- PERFORMANCE
- SCHEDULES
- SHIFT