Synthetic indicators to analyze work-related physical and psychosocial risk factors: evidence from the European Working Conditions Survey.

ABSTRACT: In modern workplaces, alongside physical, chemical, and biological hazards, other risks are linked to the organisation of work and to the nature of the work itself. This paper investigates the association between workers' well-being and both psychosocial and physical risk factors at work proposing a synthetic measure suitable to generate insights on well-being at work and on individual risk factors. Exploiting data from the European Working Conditions Survey, we select as response variable the "self-assessed health". As this proxy of well-being is measured on a Likert scale, Ordered Probit analyses are run, and respondents' profiles are illustrated. Then, a Principal Component Analysis is carried out to build two synthetic measures summarising the selected risk determinants. The resulting

SUBMITTER: Capecchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942656 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature