Global measure of satisfaction with psychosocial work conditions versus measures of specific aspects of psychosocial work conditions in explaining sickness absence

Table 1 Correlations between six aspects of psychosocial work conditions and a global measure (Pearsons Correlation Coefficient)

	Management	Cooperation	Professionalism	Skill Discretion	Workload	Decision Authority	Global measure
Management	1.00	0.57	0.64	0.46	0.33	0.67	0.64
Cooperation		1.00	0.58	0.41	0.29	0.51	0.60
Professionalism			1.00	0.48	0.40	0.61	0.62
Skill discretion				1.00	0.34	0.50	0.45
Workload					1.00	0.41	0.40
Decision Authority						1.00	0.59
Global measure							1.00

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