Title
Measuring eudemonic well-being at work: A validation study for the 24-item the university of Tokyo occupational mental health (TOMH) well-being scale among Japanese workers
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Watanabe K.
Imamura K.
Inoue A.
Otsuka Y.
Shimazu A.
Eguchi H.
Adachi H.
Sakuraya A.
Kobayashi Y.
Arima H.
Kawakami N.
Publisher(s)
National Institute of Industrial Health
Abstract
Although the eudemonic perspective seems to be a promising in considering vocational identity among working population, well-being at work has been discussed primarily in terms of subjective/hedonic well-being. This study aimed to develop a new tool to measure eudemonic well-being at work (The University of Tokyo Occupational Mental Health [TOMH] well-being 24 scale) and investigate its validity in a collectivist culture. Two online surveys were conducted with a total of 1,760 workers in Japan. We created 89 potential items from existing scales. An exploratory factor analysis indicated eight factors for the dimensions of measurement. After item selection based on item response theory, the factor structure with three items from each of the eight dimensions indicated an excellent fit for another sample. Cronbach’s α and intra-class coefficients ranged from 0.671 to 0.845. The scores of the tool were more strongly associated with subjective well-being in the work context rather than well-being in general. In addition, the participants in the group demonstrating a higher risk for mental illness and a more stressful work environment indicated significantly lower scores, even after adjusting for general eudemonic well-being. The new measurement may be useful both for academic and practical applications for measuring eudemonic well-being at work, inde-pendent from general eudemonic well-being.
Start page
107
End page
131
Volume
58
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología (incluye terapias de aprendizaje, habla, visual y otras discapacidades físicas y mentales)
Salud ocupacional
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85082779846
PubMed ID
Source
Industrial Health
ISSN of the container
00198366
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants (Research on Occupational Safety and Health) 2017 (H27-Rodo-Ippan-004) from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP18H06435). We would like to offer thanks to all members of the University of Tokyo Occupational Mental Health (TOMH) research teams for offering valuable insight for developing the measurement.
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