Table 2.
Dutch workers’ knowledge and attitudes towards having a coworker with MHI (N = 1,224).
| % | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge and experience | Knowledge | Estimated prevalence of MHI in organization | |
| <15% | 47.6 | ||
| 15–25% | 20.9 | ||
| 25%> | 31.5 | ||
| Association MHI: work related disorders | 71.7 | ||
| Association MHI: common disorders | 47.2 | ||
| Association MHI: other disorders | 27.0 | ||
| Experience | General familiarity with MHI | ||
| Not familiar | 27.2 | ||
| Little familiar | 18.3 | ||
| Very familiar | 54.5 | ||
| Personal experience with interacting with coworkers with MHI | |||
| Negative | 7.4 | ||
| Neutral | 29.4 | ||
| Positive | 32.1 | ||
| None | 31.1 | ||
| Attitudes | Desire for social distance | Want to have a coworker with MHI, who you would hardly work with | |
| No | 21.9 | ||
| Neutral | 66.2 | ||
| Yes | 11.8 | ||
| Want to have a coworker with MHI, who you would work with intensively | |||
| No | 41.9 | ||
| Neutral | 46.0 | ||
| Yes | 12.0 | ||
| Want to work for a higher-ranking manager with MHI | |||
| No | 64.1 | ||
| Neutral | 28.5 | ||
| Yes | 7.4 | ||
| Willingness to support | Free up extra time for a coworker with MHI, so we can talk about his/her problems | ||
| No | 11.7 | ||
| Neutral | 27.9 | ||
| Yes | 60.4 | ||
| I am happy to offer practical support to a coworker with MHI | |||
| No | 13.3 | ||
| Neutral | 28.1 | ||
| Yes | 58.7 | ||
| I would like to learn more about MHI in general | |||
| No | 26.1 | ||
| Neutral | 39.3 | ||
| Yes | 34.6 | ||
| I would like to learn more about how I can best deal with coworkers with MHI | |||
| No | 18.2 | ||
| Neutral | 32.2 | ||
| Yes | 49.5 | ||
| Want to know if coworker has MHI | |||
| No | 6.9 | ||
| Neutral | 29.0 | ||
| Yes | 64.1 | ||
| I do not find it hard to work with a coworker with MHI | |||
| No | 25.5 | ||
| Neutral | 39.0 | ||
| Yes | 35.5 | ||
| Responsibility | People are mainly personally responsible for their MHI | ||
| No | 22.6 | ||
| Neutral | 23.8 | ||
| Yes | 53.6 | ||
| Potential concerns | Concerns that coworker with MHI is incompetent | ||
| A1 The coworker cannot handle the work | 45.0 | ||
| A2 You cannot count on this coworker | 32.7 | ||
| A3 It will lead to long-term sickness absence | 28.8 | ||
| A4 The coworker will make mistakes | 24.2 | ||
| A5 The coworker has a lower work tempo | 11.7 | ||
| Personal concerns about helping and dealing with coworker with MHI | |||
| B1 I am not sure how to help this coworker | 38.0 | ||
| B2 I need to take over his/her work tasks | 33.4 | ||
| B3 I am not sure how to deal with this coworker | 30.2 | ||
| B4 I do not feel like talking about the coworker’s personal problems | 8.9 | ||
| Concerns that the coworker with MHI will damage the workplace | |||
| C1 It will have a negative impact on the workplace atmosphere | 32.9 | ||
| C2 It will lead to conflicts | 24.4 | ||
| C3 The coworker poses a danger to him or herself or to others in the workplace | 22.3 | ||
| C4 The coworker will cause damage to the relationships that are important to me/the organization | 12.8 | ||
| C5 Talking about the problems will take up a lot of the other coworkers’ time | 10.2 | ||
| C6 He/she can damage my or the organization’s reputation | 6.1 | ||