Table 2 Personality-related and psychosocial correlates of sick leave days. Results of multiple negative binomial regression analysis – based on full-time employed individuals aged 18 to 64 years (data collection: mid-March 2022)
Independent variables | Sick leave days |
|---|---|
Personality-related factors | |
Extraversion (BFI-10) | 1.04 |
(0.94–1.15) | |
Agreeableness (BFI-10) | 1.04 |
(0.91–1.19) | |
Conscientiousness (BFI-10) | 0.84* |
(0.73–0.97) | |
Neuroticism (BFI-10) | 1.01 |
(0.89–1.14) | |
Openness to experience (BFI-10) | 1.19* |
(1.04–1.35) | |
Empathy (SPF-K) | 1.02 |
(0.96–1.07) | |
Altruism (Subscale „Altruism“ of the IPIP) | 1.05 |
(0.83–1.31) | |
Psychosocial factors | |
Coronavirus anxiety (CAS) | 0.90*** |
(0.86–0.93) | |
Depressive symptoms (PHQ-9) | 1.06** |
(1.02–1.11) | |
Anxiety symptoms (GAD-7) | 0.98 |
(0.94–1.03) | |
Loneliness (De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale) | 0.96 |
(0.75–1.22) | |
Perceived social isolation (Bude Lantermann Scale) | 0.98 |
(0.79–1.21) | |
Potential confounders | ✓ |
Constant | 17.56** |
(2.97–103.80) | |
Observations | 1,342 |
Pseudo R² | 0.02 |