Messioui Angela, de Grip Andries, Sanders Jos, Smit Marion
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Scand J Work Environ Health. 2025 May;51(3):247-254. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.4222. Epub 2025 Mar 31.
This paper is the first multidisciplinary study into the impact of new skill requirements in the job on absenteeism. The aim of this study was to investigate whether economic skills obsolescence (ESO) increased both absence frequency and average duration mediated by burnout and/or work engagement.
A longitudinal study was conducted on data from the Dutch Study on Transitions in Employment, Ability and Motivation (N=4493). Structural equation modelling was used to test the specific direct and indirect effects of ESO on absence frequency and average duration, followed by bootstrapping to compute the confidence intervals.
ESO at baseline had a positive relationship with burnout at follow-up. In turn, burnout was positively related to both absence frequency and average absence duration at follow-up. The bootstrap indirect effect test showed that ESO had a significant positive indirect effect, via burnout and (lower) work engagement, on absence frequency and average duration. Furthermore, ESO at baseline was negatively related to work engagement at follow-up. Work engagement, in turn, was negatively related to absence frequency and average duration at follow-up. The bootstrap test showed that ESO had a significant indirect effect, via work engagement, on absence frequency.
ESO is associated with subsequent absence frequency and average duration of workers, both mediated by burnout and decreased work engagement.
本文是对工作中新技能要求对旷工影响的首次多学科研究。本研究的目的是调查经济技能过时（ESO）是否会通过倦怠和/或工作投入介导，增加缺勤频率和平均缺勤时长。
对荷兰就业、能力和动机转变研究（N = 4493）的数据进行了纵向研究。采用结构方程模型来检验ESO对缺勤频率和平均时长的特定直接和间接影响，随后进行自抽样以计算置信区间。
基线时的ESO与随访时的倦怠呈正相关。反过来，倦怠与随访时的缺勤频率和平均缺勤时长均呈正相关。自抽样间接效应检验表明，ESO通过倦怠和（较低的）工作投入，对缺勤频率和平均时长有显著的正向间接效应。此外，基线时的ESO与随访时的工作投入呈负相关。工作投入反过来又与随访时的缺勤频率和平均时长呈负相关。自抽样检验表明，ESO通过工作投入对缺勤频率有显著的间接效应。
ESO与随后的工人缺勤频率和平均时长相关，这两者均由倦怠和工作投入降低介导。
