Presenteeism in college students: reliability and validity of the Presenteeism Scale for Students
Abstract
Objective Presenteeism is the impaired work performance due to health problems. We aimed to develop a Presenteeism Scale for Students (PSS), and to reveal the existence of presenteeism among students.Methods Students (n = 5,701) in 4 national universities in Japan were recruited via the school-based health examination. Moreover, 122 students participated in a 2-week interval test-retest to examine the reliability and criterion-related validity of the PSS.Results Of the students, 59.2% indicated some health problems. Allergy was most prevalent health problems, affecting 35.7% of the whole students. Students with emotional problems had higher degree of presenteeism than those with the other problems. The Cronbach's α of the work impairment score of the PSS was 0.90. The Spearman's coefficient for the test-retest score was 0.80 (P < 0.001). Regarding criterion-related validity, Spearman's coefficient between the work impairment score of the PSS and summary score of the SF-36 was -0.60 (P < 0.001).Conclusions These findings suggest that the PSS can be expected to be useful for assessment of students with presenteeism. Furthermore, we found that the majority of students have some health problems, and proposed that the issue of presenteeism on campus should be addressed.
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New concepts such as presenteeism in students are developed with associated questionnaires (e.g., PSS, Matsushita et al., 2011), but these are rarely used (e.g., Harrer et al., 2018b).
“Although new concepts, such as presenteeism (i.e. impaired performance due to physical and mental complaints) in students are developed together with associated questionnaires (e.g. Presenteeism Scale for Students, PSS, Matsushita et al., 2011), these are rarely used (e.g. Harrer et al., 2018b).”
From The effect of e-mental health interventions on academic performance in university and college students: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2020) · cites this paper as Matsushita et al., 2011
The Work Impairment Scale has a Cronbach's α of 0.90 and sufficient test-retest reliability and criterion-related validity.
“For the Work Impairment Scale, a Cronbach’s α of 0.90 as well as sufficient test-retest reliability and criterion-related validity could be demonstrated [75].”
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- Authors
- Matsushita, M., Adachi, H., Arakida, M., Namura, I., Takahashi, Y., Miyata, M., Kumano-go, T., Yamamura, S., Shigedo, Y., Suganuma, N., Mikami, A., Moriyama, T., & Sugita, Y.
- Affiliations
- The University of Osaka (JP)
- International University of Health and Welfare (JP)
- Akita University (JP)
- Nara Women's University (JP)
- Fukuoka University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Matsushita, Masateru
- ORCID
- Venue
- Quality of Life Research
- Published
- 2010-10-14
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 439-446
- ISSN
- 0962-9343 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2649
- OpenAlex
- W2031120453
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 22
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- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Quality of Life Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fukuoka University
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Medical Practices and Rehabilitation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Keywords
- presenteeism, university students, scale development, work impairment, health problems, emotional problems, allergy, test-retest reliability, criterion validity, SF-36
- MeSH terms
- Absenteeism, Adolescent, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Japan, Male, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Students, Universities, Young Adult
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