Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health

Lutz Bellmann () and Olaf Hübler
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Lutz Bellmann: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

No 12597, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured by the Big Five, collegiality, commitment and job characteristics. Among the Big Five conscientiousness, agreeableness and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with substantial decision authority, no physically demanding tasks, pleasant environmental conditions, little time pressure and no necessity of multitasking affect health in the same direction. If employees get help if needed from their colleagues and if they do not feel unfairly criticized by others in the firm, they usually have no health problems. For mental health, all Big Five items are influential whereas no statistical significance could be found for the number of days workers were absent due to sickness except in cases of neuroticism.

Keywords: personality traits; collegiality; commitment to a company; working conditions; health status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J53 J54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2019-09
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Published - published as 'Personality traits, working conditions and health: an empirical analysis based on the German Linked Personnel Panel, 2013 - 2017 ' in: Review of Managerial Science, 2022, 16, 283 - 318

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