Relationships Among Self-Efficacy, Communication, Self-Management Skills and Mental Health of Employees at a Japanese Workplace

SHIMIZU Takashi, TAKAHASHI Hiroyuki, MIZOUE Tetsuya, KUBOTA Shinya, MISHIMA Norio, NAGATA Shoji

doi:10.7888/juoeh.25.261

We investigated relationships among self-efficacy, self-management skills, communication with superiors and mental health of employees at a Japanese work-place. 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.

Relationships Among Self-Efficacy, Communication, Self-Management Skills and Mental Health of Employees at a Japanese Workplace

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