Reddy Indla Ramasubba, Singh Aakanksha B, Reddy Indla Vishal
Department of Psychiatry, Indlas Vijayawada Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2021 Oct;30(Suppl 1):S155-S159. doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.328807. Epub 2021 Oct 22.
Absenteeism refers to a worker's unscheduled absence from the workplace. Around the world, a large share of mental disorders can be attributed to work productivity losses. Despite industries working on improvement in employees' wages, better work environment and improved health care to improve their mental health. Absenteeism continues to be a global burden.
The aim of the study was to explore the factors influencing absenteeism.
A sample size of 100 workers was selected and standardized, and reliable research tools were employed. Factors influencing absenteeism such as the sociodemographic factors, personality traits, psychiatric morbidity, family typology, and interactions were studied using relevant scales, i.e., Eysenck's Personality Inventory and Family Typology by Batti and Channabasavanna.
Study found that absentees were more emotionally stable, whereas regulars were found to be emotionally unstable. Factors were found to be associated with absenteeism such as low income, 11-20 years of service, low mean neuroticism score, chronic physical disease, high psychiatric morbidity among the workers, egoistic and anomic family typology. This study reveals that a significantly higher proportion of absentees had a low pay scale. Paradoxically, a high proportion of absenteeism had a longer duration service, indicating that the low pay scales could have resulted from disciplinary actions against absentees, like loss of increments, etc.
Psychosis, alcoholism, and chronic physical illnesses are among the illnesses which contribute to absenteeism.
旷工是指员工未按计划缺勤。在全球范围内，很大一部分精神障碍可归因于工作效率损失。尽管各行业致力于提高员工工资、改善工作环境和加强医疗保健以改善员工心理健康，但旷工仍然是一个全球性负担。
本研究的目的是探讨影响旷工的因素。
选取100名工人作为样本并进行标准化处理，采用可靠的研究工具。使用相关量表，即艾森克人格问卷和巴蒂与钱纳巴萨万纳编制的家庭类型量表，研究影响旷工的因素，如社会人口学因素、人格特质、精神疾病发病率、家庭类型及相互作用等。
研究发现旷工者情绪更稳定，而正常出勤者情绪不稳定。研究发现与旷工相关的因素包括低收入、工作11至20年、神经质平均得分低、慢性身体疾病、工人中精神疾病发病率高、自我中心型和失范型家庭类型。本研究表明，旷工者中工资水平低的比例显著更高。矛盾的是，高比例的旷工者工作年限更长，这表明低工资水平可能是对旷工者采取纪律处分的结果，如丧失加薪机会等。
精神病、酗酒和慢性身体疾病是导致旷工的疾病类型。
