The Japanese Workplace PERMA-Profiler: A validation study among Japanese workers

Kazuhiro Watanabe; Norito Kawakami; Toru Shiotani; Hidehiko Adachi; Kaori Matsumoto; Kotaro Imamura; Kei Matsumoto; Fumino Yamagami; Ayumi Fusejima; Tomoko Muraoka; Tomomitsu Kagami; Akihito Shimazu; Margaret L Kern

doi:10.1539/joh.2018-0050-OA

The Japanese Workplace PERMA-Profiler: A validation study among Japanese workers

Kazuhiro Watanabe, Norito Kawakami, Toru Shiotani, Hidehiko Adachi, Kaori Matsumoto, Kotaro Imamura, Kei Matsumoto, Fumino Yamagami, Ayumi Fusejima, Tomoko Muraoka, Tomomitsu Kagami, Akihito Shimazu, Margaret L Kern

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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 work-related 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	383-393
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of occupational health
Volume	60
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1539/joh.2018-0050-OA
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2018

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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. 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.

Funders	Funder number
Health and Labor Sciences Research	2015-2017 (H 27-Rodo-Ippan-004
Ministry of Health
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	16K04393, 19K21509, 18K03120
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

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Adult
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Humans
Japan
Job Satisfaction
Language
Male
Middle Aged
Occupational Stress/psychology
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires/standards
Translations
Workplace/psychology

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