Cross-cultural comparison of work-related health issues: An exploratory qualitative study of French and Japanese employees

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Schoenenberger, Sandrine | Westrelin, Nicolas

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International audience. The aim of this paper is to make an exploratory study comparing representations of work-related health issues between French and Japanese people. In psychology, and more specifically in occupational psychology, research and theoretical frameworks suffer from an ethnocentric bias. Indeed, North-American models dominate research in psychology. However, culture and cross-cultural studies teach the importance of taking culture into account in human and social sciences, including psychology. For this paper, we have chosen to study the impact of culture on an important field: occupational health psychology. In this field, the objective of research is to help companies to prevent health troubles for their employees. Considering that health depends on the representations people have of it and these representations depend on culture, it seems difficult to use solutions from another cultural context. To that extent, we have decided to test the representations employees have of work-related health issues. In this paper, we shall present a comparison between a French and a Japanese sample of employees. The first part of this paper consists of the theoretical framework for this research. Then we will expose our methodology. Finally we will analyze the results and conclude.

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