Beauticians' Health Related Antecedents on Presenteeism in Korea

Objectives: The current study is to determine the differences, to find out correlates, and to verify the causal relationships among occupational stress, psychosocial stress, and presenteeism, taking beauticians’ demographic characteristics and individually perceived health into consideration.

Method: With 246 samples collected from beauticians currently working at different locations in Korea, quantitative analyses were performed with SPSS 23 and LISREL 8.54 software and CFA, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression were implemented.

Results: Individually perceived health was the major differential factor to affect the perceived stresses and presenteeism. And the older in age group, the longer tenure, and the higher position of beauticians were likely to get less occupational and psychosocial stress. And the perceived health was significantly and negatively correlated with the two stresses and presenteeism. Presenteeism was significantly and positively correlated with occupational stress and psychosocial stress. Beauticians’ perceived health had significant and negative effects on presenteeism (-.171, p<.01), and both occupational (.252, p<0.01) and psychosocial stress (.391, p<0.001) beauticians perceived to possess were significantly and positively related to presenteeism. And psychosocial stress had stronger effects on presenteeism than occupational stress.

Conclusion: This study provides evidences that beauticians’ perceived health and stresses may increase the risk of presenteeism. Given the findings from the current study, managers and management are recommended to pay more attentions to this counterproductive phenomena, presenteeism, and to pay further attempts finding initiatives to improve beauticians’ health problem and to reduce their occupational and psychosocial stress, which would in turn lead to presenteeism.