PMID- 14503038
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20031104
LR  - 20191026
IS  - 0387-821X (Print)
IS  - 0387-821X (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 3
DP  - 2003 Sep 1
TI  - Relationships among self-efficacy, communication, self-management skills and 
      mental health of employees at a Japanese workplace.
PG  - 261-70
AB  - We investigated relationships among self-efficacy, self-management skills, 
      communication with superiors and mental health of employees at a Japanese 
      workplace. The subjects were 426 employees in a medium-sized manufacturing 
      company in Kyushu. In 1999, with agreement of the company, we mailed a 
      self-administrated questionnaire which included questions on age, gender, job 
      rank, communication with superiors, a General Self-Efficacy Scale(GSES), a 
      Self-Management Skill scale(SMS) and the Japanese version of the 12-item General 
      Health Questionnaire(GHQ-12). Eighty percent of the subjects returned the 
      questionnaire. Excluding senior managers and insufficient answers, the final 
      response rate was 55 percent. By multiple regression analysis, we found that job 
      rank contributed significantly and positively, and that age, communication with 
      superiors and self-management skills contributed significantly and negatively to 
      the GHQ-12. Our results implied that age, job rank, communication with superiors 
      and self-management skills would contribute to the mental health of Japanese 
      employees.
FAU - Shimizu, Takashi
AU  - Shimizu T
AD  - Department of Mental Health, Institute of Industrial and Ecological Sciences, 
      University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 
      807-8555, Japan.
FAU - Takahashi, Hiroyuki
AU  - Takahashi H
FAU - Mizoue, Tetsuya
AU  - Mizoue T
FAU - Kubota, Shinya
AU  - Kubota S
FAU - Mishima, Norio
AU  - Mishima N
FAU - Nagata, Shoji
AU  - Nagata S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - J UOEH
JT  - Journal of UOEH
JID - 7909645
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - *Communication
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Japan
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mental Health
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Occupational Health
MH  - Self Care/*psychology
MH  - *Self Efficacy
MH  - *Self-Assessment
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Workplace/*psychology
EDAT- 2003/09/25 05:00
MHDA- 2003/11/05 05:00
CRDT- 2003/09/25 05:00
PHST- 2003/09/25 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/11/05 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/09/25 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.7888/juoeh.25.261 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J UOEH. 2003 Sep 1;25(3):261-70. doi: 10.7888/juoeh.25.261.