Abstract:
The purposes of this dissertation include 1) to investigate the definition of work-
health balance and their causal factors which are perceived by governmental teachers
and educational personnel of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, 2) to test the
measurement model on work-health balance, presenteeism, coworker support, health
consciousness and stress undergone by the representative sample 3) to test the
consistency between the structural equation model of work-health balance and
practical work carried out by the representative sample by using the empirical data
and 4) to develop the work-health balance training for the government teachers and
educational personnel of Bangkok Metropolitan. The dissertation was divided into
4 phases. The first phase was in-depth interviews with 12 teachers and educational
personnel and analyzed the transcript of interviews by content analysis framework.
The second phase tested the measurement model with the representative sample of
300 teachers and educational personnel and analyzed data by the second order
confirmatory factor. The third phase tested the structural equation model of work-health
balance of teachers and educational personnel by collecting data from 537 teachers
and educational personnel and analyzed the data by using a computer program.
The fourth phase was an experimental study using Pretest-Posttest One Group Design in
the form of Repeated Measures Design on the experimental group of 15 teachers and
educational personnel, and data analysis was done by using Friedman Text, Wilcox
Signed-Rank Test and Paired-Samples t-Test.
In summary, the results of each phase showed that 1) the definition work-health
balance perceived by teachers and educational personnel was the condition which
enabled them to reach a suitable compromise between workload and well-being.
The condition consisted of three components including work-health incompatibility,
external support, and health climate. The related factors of work-health balance were
presenteeism, coworker support health consciousness, and stress. 2) the confirmatory
factor analysis of the measurement model on work-health balance was consistent with
the empirical data by statistical value of X2 = 75.180, df = 64, P-value = .160, X2/df = 1.17, RMSEA = 0.024, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.034 and GFl = 0.96, the confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model on presenteeism was consistent with the empirical data by the statistical value of X2 = 91.22, df = 73, P-value = .073, X2/df = 1.24, RMSEA = 0.029, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.040 and GFI = 0.95, the confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model on coworker support was consistent with the empirical data by the statistical value of X2 =263.907, df = 328, P-value = .99, X2/df = 0.80, RMSEA = 0.000, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.026 and GFI = 0.90, the confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model on health consciousness
was consistent with the empirical data by the statistical value of X2 =233.75, df = 201, P-value = .056, X2/df = 1.16, RMSEA = 0.023, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.036 and GFI = 0.90, and the confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model on stress was consistent with the empirical data by the statistical value of X2 =273.12, df = 240, P-value = .070, X2/df = 1.13, RMSEA = 0.022, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.034 and GFI = 0.90 3) The structural equation model of work-health balance was consistent
with the empirical data by the statistical value of X2 =83.96, df = 70, P-value = .122, X2/df = 1.19, RMSEA = 0.019, NNFI = 0.99, CFI = 0.99, SRMR = 0.015 and GFI = 0.98 4) The teachers and educational personnel's scores on work-health balance and stress before and after the experiments and the follow-up were at the statistical significance at .01.