Table 2.

Associations of the change of sickness absence days from year 2004 to year 2008 and change of perceived physical and psychosocial working environment from 2005 to 2009

Baseline-factors: physical and psychosocial factors in the year 2005 and sickness absence days in the year 2004, Model 1: physical and psychosocial factors in separate models, Model 2: physical and psychosocial factors pooled into the same model, R²: the coefficient of determination.

Linear regression models with enter method were used (N = 679). Psychosocial and physical factors are presented separately in the model. Statistically significant results are shown in bold.