How are you feeling? Open survey on well-being at work
Duration: 5–10 minutes
Content: 26 multiple-choice questions on your feelings, attitudes and behaviours at work
Results: A personal well-being profile and research-based, personalised feedback
- For whom?
Employees, business owners and self-employed people. The test is intended for individuals, but work communities can agree to take the test together. - Benefits?
The test will give you a better understanding of your situation as well as concrete tips to improve your work life.
How have others responded?
If you want, you can compare your test results with those of others in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health's Work-life Knowledge Service.
You can view the responses by industry, age, gender or educational background, among others. The service presents aggregate results that are anonymised.
Concepts of well-being at work in the test
Work engagement
A positive affective-motivational state at work that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption.
Job satisfaction
A pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from an appraisal of one’s job or job experiences.
Workaholism
A high but negative level of alertness and an obsessive, uncontrollable tendency to focus excessively on work in a way that interferes with other aspects of life and is therefore a health risk.
Burnout
A chronic work-related stress syndrome that is characterised with chronic exhaustion , mental distance (cynicism), cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment.
Job boredom
An a motivational unpleasant state in which employees lack interest in their work activities, and have difficulties in concentrating on them.
There are many factors to work ability
The experiences that the How are you feeling? -well-being test examines are linked to work ability. Work engagement in particular is known to have a positive impact on work ability, whereas advanced, untreated burnout may even lead to work disability.
Work ability is the compatibility and balance between individual capability and the demands of work. Work ability is based on physical and mental health and functional capacity. It is also influenced by factors like social functioning, skills and the values, attitudes and motivation towards work. Working conditions, the work community and management also have an impact on work ability.
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