Table 3 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) | 1.06 |
(0.94–1.21) | |
Conscientiousness (BFI-10) | 0.82** |
(0.71–0.93) | |
Neuroticism (BFI-10) | 1.01 |
(0.89–1.13) | |
Openness to experience (BFI-10) | 1.20** |
(1.07–1.35) | |
Empathy (SPF-K) | 1.02 |
(0.97–1.08) | |
Altruism (Subscale „Altruism“ of the IPIP) | 1.03 |
(0.82–1.29) | |
Psychosocial factors | |
Coronavirus anxiety (CAS) | 0.90*** |
(0.86–0.94) | |
Depressive symptoms (PHQ-9) | 1.05* |
(1.01–1.10) | |
Anxiety symptoms (GAD-7) | 0.98 |
(0.94–1.03) | |
Loneliness (De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale) | 0.99 |
(0.78–1.26) | |
Perceived social isolation (Bude Lantermann Scale) | 0.97 |
(0.79–1.19) | |
Potential confounders | ✓ |
Constant | 18.22** |
(3.03–109.67) | |
Observations | 1,342 |
Pseudo R² | 0.02 |