Association between Perceived Organizational Support for Infection Prevention and Work Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Japanese Workers: A Prospective Cohort Study

Kiminori Odagami (), Tomohisa Nagata, Kosuke Mafune, Hajime Ando, Seiichiro Tateishi, Mami Kuwamura, Ryutaro Matsugaki, Yoshihisa Fujino, Koji Mori and on behalf of the CORoNaWork Project
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Kiminori Odagami: Department of Occupational Health Practice and Management, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Tomohisa Nagata: Department of Occupational Health Practice and Management, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Kosuke Mafune: Department of Mental Health, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Hajime Ando: Department of Work Systems and Health, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Seiichiro Tateishi: Disaster Occupational Health Center, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Mami Kuwamura: Department of Environmental Health, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Ryutaro Matsugaki: Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Yoshihisa Fujino: Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
Koji Mori: Department of Occupational Health Practice and Management, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan
on behalf of the CORoNaWork Project: Membership of The CORoNaWork Project is provided in the Acknowledgments.

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-8

Abstract: Although the correlation between perceived organizational support (POS) and work engagement has been investigated in several studies, the relationship between health-focused POS and work engagement has not been clarified. We prospectively evaluated the influence of workers’ POS for infection prevention (POS-IP) on employees’ work engagement. This prospective cohort study was conducted from December 2020 (baseline) to December 2021 (1-year follow-up) using a self-administered internet questionnaire. At follow-up, there were 18,560 respondents, and after excluding 6677 respondents who had changed jobs or retired since baseline or who were self-employed; thus, 11,883 participants were included in the analysis. We asked participants a single question on POS-IP and the three-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-3), and then analyzed the relationship between POS-IP at baseline and UWES-3 at follow-up using multilevel regression analysis. Work engagement at follow-up was significantly higher in the groups with “low”, “high”, and “very high” POS-IP at baseline as compared with the “very low” group (all, p < 0.001). A dose-response relationship was also observed between the POS-IP categories at baseline and work engagement at follow-up ( p for trend < 0.001). During the COVID-19 pandemic, POS-IP can increase work engagement after 1 year.

Keywords: COVID-19; infection prevention; Japan; perceived organizational support; work engagement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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