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  • Health-related nutritional behavior, employee efficiency, and general life satisfaction [Elektronski vir]
    Brečko, Zala ; Kobal Grum, Darja
    An individual’s daily diet can have substantial effects on different aspects of his/her life. Research has shown a significant linkage of nutrition with health, and health with work-related outcomes, ... while research linking nutrition and work-related outcomes is scarce. The first aim of our study was therefore to investigate the relationship between health-related nutritional behavior and work-related outcomes, along with general life satisfaction. Lacking sufficient knowledge about how eating behavior affects those outcomes, we focused the second aim of our study on determining its role in predicting employee efficiency, employee engagement and absenteeism. 230 employees (175 women, 55 men; M of age = 30.92, SD = 8.75) participated in the study. We used the following instruments: A screening questionnaire of nutritional habits (Public Health Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, 2011), General life satisfaction scale SWLS (Diener et al., 1985), the Slovenian short version of the WHO Health and Work performance questionnaire (Sedlar, 2015; Kessler et al., 2003), and The Utrecht work engagement scale (Schaufeli et al., 2006).In the first step, the descriptive statistics were calculated, normal distribution was tested, and the reliability of each scale was verified. We then calculated the correlations between the measured variables. In the last step, a regression analysis was used for statistically significant correlations to calculate whether nutritional behavior can predict work-related results and overall life satisfaction.Wefound significant correlation of nutritional behavior with employee engagement (r = .22), employee efficiency (r = .29) and general life satisfaction (r = .26). As hypothesized, health-related nutritional behavior serves as a strong predictor of general life satisfaction (β = .26) and has a significant predictive power of employees’ efficiency (β = .20) and engagement as well β = .22). The results are of primary importance for employees, as they confirm that nutrition is an important factor in achieving good work results, and that healthy eating leads to greater work-related outcomes, as well as greater life satisfaction. These findings are also of considerable importance for employers in confirming the positive effects of workplace health promotion, which has beneficial consequences for both employees and employers.
    Vir: Psychology in the function of the well-being of the individual and society [Elektronski vir] : 17th International Conference Days of Applied Psychology 2021 : Niš, Serbia, September 24th-25th 2021 : international conference proceedings (Str. 207-225)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2022
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 125340675

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