Personal Attitudes, Job Characteristics and Health

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12597

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence ; Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms; Employee Ownership
• Subject: health status ; working conditions ; commitment to a company ; collegiality ; personality traits

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bellmann, Lutz ; Hübler, Olaf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/207422
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET