TY - JOUR
T1 - The Japanese Workplace PERMA-Profiler
T2 - A validation study among Japanese workers
AU - Watanabe, Kazuhiro
AU - Kawakami, Norito
AU - Shiotani, Toru
AU - Adachi, Hidehiko
AU - Matsumoto, Kaori
AU - Imamura, Kotaro
AU - Matsumoto, Kei
AU - Yamagami, Fumino
AU - Fusejima, Ayumi
AU - Muraoka, Tomoko
AU - Kagami, Tomomitsu
AU - Shimazu, Akihito
AU - Kern, Margaret L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant 2015-2017 (H 27-Rodo-Ippan-004) from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We thank Kiyomi Fujii and Brent Wright for their cooperation in the back-translation of the Japanese version of the Workplace PERMA Profiler.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments : This work is supported by the Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant 2015-2017 (H 27-Rodo-Ippan-004) from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Objectives: Although well-being at work is important for occupational health, multi-dimensional workplace well-being measures do not exist for Japanese workers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the Japanese version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler. Methods: Japanese workers completed online surveys at baseline (N = 310) and 1 month later (N = 100) . The Workplace PERMA-Profiler was translated according to international guidelines. Job and life satisfaction, work engagement, psychological distress, work-related psychosocial factors, and work performance were measured as comparisons for convergent validity. Cronbach's alphas, Intra-class Correlation Coefficients (ICCs), and measurement errors were calculated for the reliability, and the validity of the measure was tested by correlational analyses and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: A total of 310 (baseline) and 86 (follow-up) workers responded and were included in the analyses. Cronbach's alphas and ICCs of the Japanese Workplace PERMA-Profiler ranged from 0.75 to 0.96. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 5-factor model demonstrated a marginally acceptable fit (χ2 (80) = 351.30, CFI = 0.892, TLI = 0.858, RMSEA = 0.105, SRMR = 0.051). Overall well-being and the five PERMA domains had moderate-to-strong correlations with job satisfaction, psychological distress (inversely), and workrelated factors. Conclusions: The Japanese version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler demonstrated adequate reliability and validity. This measure could be useful to assess well-being at work, promote well-being research among Japanese workers, and address the problem of definition for well-being in further studies.
AB - Objectives: Although well-being at work is important for occupational health, multi-dimensional workplace well-being measures do not exist for Japanese workers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the Japanese version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler. Methods: Japanese workers completed online surveys at baseline (N = 310) and 1 month later (N = 100) . The Workplace PERMA-Profiler was translated according to international guidelines. Job and life satisfaction, work engagement, psychological distress, work-related psychosocial factors, and work performance were measured as comparisons for convergent validity. Cronbach's alphas, Intra-class Correlation Coefficients (ICCs), and measurement errors were calculated for the reliability, and the validity of the measure was tested by correlational analyses and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: A total of 310 (baseline) and 86 (follow-up) workers responded and were included in the analyses. Cronbach's alphas and ICCs of the Japanese Workplace PERMA-Profiler ranged from 0.75 to 0.96. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the 5-factor model demonstrated a marginally acceptable fit (χ2 (80) = 351.30, CFI = 0.892, TLI = 0.858, RMSEA = 0.105, SRMR = 0.051). Overall well-being and the five PERMA domains had moderate-to-strong correlations with job satisfaction, psychological distress (inversely), and workrelated factors. Conclusions: The Japanese version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler demonstrated adequate reliability and validity. This measure could be useful to assess well-being at work, promote well-being research among Japanese workers, and address the problem of definition for well-being in further studies.
KW - Flourishing
KW - Japanese workers
KW - PERMA
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Well-being
KW - Workplace
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U2 - 10.1539/joh.2018-0050-OA
DO - 10.1539/joh.2018-0050-OA
M3 - Article
C2 - 30122730
AN - SCOPUS:85054078860
VL - 60
SP - 383
EP - 393
JO - Journal of Occupational Health
JF - Journal of Occupational Health
SN - 1341-9145
IS - 5
ER -
