EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON EMPLOYEES DUE TO CULTURAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

To examine relationships between work-based cultural activities and mental employee health in the working place. A positive relationship between frequent cultural activity at work and good employee health was expected. Lower frequency of cultural activities at work during the period of high unemployment. The effects of relationships with emotional exhaustion were more significant than those with depressive symptoms. Cultural activities at work vary according to business cycle and have a statistical association with mental employee health, particularly with emotional exhaustion. There are particularly pronounced statistical protective effects of frequent cultural activity at work on likelihood of emotional exhaustion among employees.