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Newman, Daniel A. Newman, Daniel A. Cohen, Dov Vargas, Patrick T. Rounds, James Hulin, Charles L. Hernandez, Jorge Ivan 2015-07-22T22:17:28Z 2015-07-22T22:17:28Z 2015-05 2015-04-24 This paper offers a cultural perspective to the work absenteeism literature, by conceptualizing work absence at the U.S. state level of analysis, and by assessing absenteeism as a manifestation of regional cultures. First, I establish that absenteeism is a spatially dependent phenomenon, and demonstrate that the retest reliability of absenteeism increases at higher levels of aggregation (from individual-level to city-level to state-level), to provide evidence for absence as a state-level construct. Second, I hypothesize main effects of regional cultures on state-level work absenteeism (i.e., in the U.S. West). Third, I assess whether observed regional differences in state-level absence cultures in the West are attributable to (mediated by) regional differences in state-level social disorganization/anomie, while controlling for state-level variance in work industry (e.g., manufacturing), personality (Extraversion, Neuroticism), unemployment rates, and physical disabilities. Analyzing data spanning over 4 years and over 3 million people per year, this paper explains how absenteeism varies across states in the U.S. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2015-07-22 without embargo terms The student, Jorge Hernandez, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-23 at 04:44. The student, Jorge Hernandez, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-04-23 at 04:50. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-24 at 12:58. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8048 on 2015-07-22 at 10:33:23 Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:17:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 HERNANDEZ-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 987163 bytes, checksum: a09c8803dd17b05e067227eb2b2441f8 (MD5) Dissertation_IvanHernandez.docx: 597472 bytes, checksum: e2f02e98bf10d7c0f078fe3ddee2a4a9 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: 63370faacff5d3d9efce08e3a24a3aae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-24 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78468 en Copyright 2015 Jorge Hernandez Absenteeism Social Disorganization Culture Regional Variation Regional variation in work absence cultures in the United States text text 2015-5 Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.