The Job Demands-Job Control Model and absence behaviour : results of a 3-year longitudinal study
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Empirical results of earlier studies only marginally supported the relevance of Karasek's Job Demands-Job Control Model for absence behaviour. Since longitudinal studies with respect to these relations were largely lacking, a four-wave panel study was carried out using data from 1755 male employees of a technical maintenance firm in the public sector. Job demands, job control, physical working conditions, and the employee's age, education, and health were measured in one year and absenteeism in the same year and in the next three years. Data were analysed with linear regression and Poisson regression techniques. The Poisson regression technique was superior to the linear regression technique in explaining absence. Age, health and prior absence were the best predictors of later absence behaviour. With respect to the Job Demands-Job Control Model, the main findings of the study were that job control was significantly associated with a low number of simultaneous and later absence days, and that, contrary to expectations, job demands were also related to a low number of simultaneous and later absence days.
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276628
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Work and stress, 13(2), pp. 115-131.
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115-131
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