Smoking as a moderator of the relationship between affective state and absence from work.

Parkes, Katharine R.

doi:10.1037/0021-9010.68.4.698

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“…When directly compared it has a smaller effect than most job-related attitudes (although few long-term studies are reported, which would improve the compatibility of the smoking variable and absenteeism; Hendrix & Taylor, 1987). Smoking might also amplify the influence of other variables on absence (e.g., negative affect: Parkes, 1983). Once again, in subsequent research we recommend routine measurement of smoking habits and automatic checks of interactive influences.…”

Section: Long-term Sources Of Variance or Distal Originsmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…One set of studies attempted to capture normative influences indirectly. For example, researchers have inferred social influences on absence from variation in absence rates across industries and occupations (Meissenheimer, 1990), organizations in different countries (Chadwick-Jones, Nicholson & Brown, 1982), organizations within industries (Parkes, 1983), units of the same companies (Terborg, Lee, Smith, Davis & Turbin, 1982), departments within organizations, and work groups within departments (e.g., Markham & McKee, 1995).…”

Section: Mid-term Sources Of Variance: Medial Predictorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Time for Absenteeism: A 20-Year Review of Origins, Offshoots, and Outcomes

Harrison

Martocchio

1998

Journal of Management

223

134

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We use a time-based system to help organize, summarize, and analyze research on employee absenteeism published in the last 20 years (1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996). Although what is known about some mid-term (4-12 month) origins of absence-taking has been greatly clarified and expanded, less is known about long-term (> 12 months) and short-term (I day -3 months) origins, or about how causes in different time frames relate to each other. Poor performance and "neglectful" behaviors serve as reliable offshoots of absenteeism. The long-and short-term etiology of the latter behaviors is unclear, but their shared variance in the mid-term reflects negative job attitudes. Outcomes of absenteeism have received much less research attention. Although mid-term consequences such as reduced performance, turnover, and organizational expense are well-established, little is known about short-and long-term effects of absence-taking on individuals and their social environments. We conclude with suggestions for more explicit consideration of time frames, causal lags, and aggregation periods in the next decades of absenteeism research.

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Section: Long-term Sources Of Variance or Distal Originsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Mid-term Sources Of Variance: Medial Predictorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time for Absenteeism: A 20-Year Review of Origins, Offshoots, and Outcomes

Harrison

Martocchio

1998

Journal of Management

223

134

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“…[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] However, most of these studies have important limitations such as: small sample sizes, 13 17 19-21 or samples that reflected a limited segment of the population. 12-14 16-20 Those with national data and more sophisticated methods have somewhat contradictory findings concerning the impact of current smoking on absences, ranging from negligible, 11 to quite substantial losses (ranging from 11% for women to 59% for men).…”

Section: Smoking and Absencesmentioning

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If smoking increases absences, does quitting reduce them?

Sindelar

2005

Tob Control

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Objective: This study examined the impact of smoking, quitting, and time since quit on absences from work. Methods: Data from the nationally representative Tobacco Use Supplements of the 1992/93, 1995/96, and 1998/99 Current Population Surveys were used. The study included full time workers aged between 18-64 years, yielding a sample size of 383 778 workers. A binary indicator of absence due to sickness in the last week was analysed as a function of smoking status including time since quit for former smokers. Extensive demographic variables were included as controls in all models. Results: In initial comparisons between current and former smokers, smoking increased absences, but quitting did not reduce them. However, when length of time since quit was examined, it was discovered that those who quit within the last year, and especially the last three months, had a much greater probability of absences than did current smokers. As the time since quitting increased, absences returned to a rate somewhere between that of never and current smokers. Interactions between health and smoking status significantly improved the fit of the model. Conclusions: Smokers who quit reduced their absences over time but increase their absences immediately after quitting. Quitting ill may account for some but not all of this short run impact.

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“…1988 , Rees & Cooper 1992), have been reported for some time with both trained ( Nichols et al . 1981 , Rix 1987, Thompson & Page 1992), and student nurses ( Parkes 1982, Parkes 1983, Parkes 1984, Parkes 1987).…”

Section: Historical Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such studies were underpinned by large descriptive literatures based upon either transactional (Lazarus & Folkman 1984), person-environment ®t, relational (French et al 1982), or more stimulus-based, organizational de®nitions of work stress (Karasek 1979, Karasek & Theorell 1990. Whilst few of these reported studies targeted nursing staff or nursing students, the deleterious cognitive, emotional and behavioural outcomes attributable to dif®cult working conditions, demonstrated across a range of occupational groupings (Jones et al 1988, Rees & Cooper 1992, have been reported for some time with both trained (Nichols et al 1981, Rix 1987, Thompson & Page 1992, and student nurses (Parkes 1982, Parkes 1983, Parkes 1984, Parkes 1987.…”

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Reducing distress in first level and student nurses: a review of the applied stress management literature

Jones

Johnston

2000

Journal of Advanced Nursing

115

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Following recent evidence of continuing high levels of distress in both trained and student nurses, a critical review of the stress reduction and stress management literature targeting both trained and student nurses is presented. Using a systematic approach, some 36 studies dating from 1980 until the present day were identified adopting either pre-experimental, quasi-experimental or experimental designs. While many work-site programmes in this series were successful in terms of adaptive changes in problem-solving, self-management skills including relaxation and interpersonal skills, affective well-being, and work performance, a number of design and evaluation inadequacies were identified. The relative lack of home-work interface or organizational level programmes to reduce work-related distress, and the scarcity of interventions targeting aspects of the work environment likely to contribute to such outcomes may have contributed to continuing high levels of distress in trained and student nurses. Recommendations regarding the future design, provision and evaluation of such work-site interventions include the further clarification of the structure of perceived stressors, and development of causal models of the stress process to identify the job characteristics 'causing' work-related distress. Such an approach would inform the design and implementation of evidence-based organizational level interventions augmenting strategies to target the health behaviour, lifestyle/risk factors and self-management skills of practitioners and students with attempts to amend problematic elements of the psychosocial work environment.

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Smoking as a moderator of the relationship between affective state and absence from work.

Cited by 32 publications

References 36 publications

Time for Absenteeism: A 20-Year Review of Origins, Offshoots, and Outcomes

Time for Absenteeism: A 20-Year Review of Origins, Offshoots, and Outcomes

If smoking increases absences, does quitting reduce them?

Reducing distress in first level and student nurses: a review of the applied stress management literature

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