Fear of COVID-19 as a mediator within the impact of presenteeism on social loafing

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dc.contributor.authorOzbozkurt, Onur Basar
dc.contributor.authorBahar, Emel
dc.contributor.authorYesilkus, Fatma
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-17T12:25:21Z
dc.date.available2025-03-17T12:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentTarsus Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused employees to be mentally absent at work and decreased their motivation and effort when they work collaboratively rather than individually due to the fear of transmission. OBJECTIVES: The study aims to test the effect of fear caused by COVID-19 on levels of presenteeism and social loafing from job tasks of employees. METHODS: Data were collected from 522 white-collar and blue-collar workers in Turkey by the snowball sampling method. Before testing the hypotheses, CFA was performed. Reliability analysis was assessed via Cronbach Alpha (FCV-19S = 0.941; PS = 0.713; SLS = 0.974), AVE (FCV-19S = 0.686; PS = 0.524; SLS = 0.725), and CR (FCV-19S = 0.734; PS = 0.722; SLS = 0.856) values. The mediating effect of fear of COVID-19 within the impact on presenteeism on social loafing was evaluated through Process Macro for SPSS. The coefficients for both direct and indirect effects were calculated in the 95% confidence interval using 5,000 bootstrap replicates. RESULTS: The results show that presenteeism has a significant positive impact on social loafing. Fear of COVID-19 has a statistically significant impact on presenteeism and social loafing. Also, fear of COVID-19 partially mediates within the impact of presenteeism on social loafing in the study. CONCLUSION: Organizations should consider employees' views to increase the level of well-being and productivity. A high level of inventiveness from organizations is compulsory to explore which organizational roles and workflow are at least remotely operated during this period.
dc.identifier.doi10.3233/WOR-230025
dc.identifier.endpage443
dc.identifier.issn1051-9815
dc.identifier.issn1875-9270
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.pmid37742682
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85184833851
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage431
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-230025
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13099/1614
dc.identifier.volume77
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001184802000004
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIos Press
dc.relation.ispartofWork-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250316
dc.subjectFear
dc.subjectcoronavirus
dc.subjectgroup dynamics
dc.subjectsickness presence
dc.subjectremote working
dc.subjectsocial isolation
dc.titleFear of COVID-19 as a mediator within the impact of presenteeism on social loafing
dc.typeArticle

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