Impact of work-family support on the presenteeism: the mediating role of psychological capital

Abstract

Objective To explore the relationship between work-family support, psychological capital and presenteeism, and to explore the mediating role of psychological capital in work-family support and presenteeism. Methods A total of 499 nursing staff from the top three hospitals were surveyed using the Work-Family Support Scale, the Nurses' Psychological Capital Scale and the Stanford Presenteeism Scale. Using AMOS.21 to build a mediating effect model, the non-parametric percentile Bootstrap method of bias correction was used to test the mediating effect of psychological capital in the process of work-family support affecting presenteeism. Results Work-family support was significantly negatively correlated with presenteeism (r value was -0.342, P <0.01). Work-family support was significantly positively correlated with psychological capital (r value was 0.565, P<0.01), psychological capital and presenteeism was significantly negatively correlated (r value was -0.364, P<0.01). Psychological capital played an intermediary role between work-family support and presenteeism, and mediation effect value accounted for 71.4% of the total effect. Conclusions Nursing managers need to increase the psychological capital of nurses in order to reduce the loss of presenteesim, so as to enhance the intervention effect of work-family support on presenteesim. Key words: Nurses; Work-family support; Psychological capital; Presenteeism