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The Relationships between Emotional Labour and Depressive Symptoms Among Nurses in University Hospitals

대학병원 간호사들의 감정노동과 우울수준과의 관련성

  • Kim, Kyung-Ok (Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Cho, Young-Chae (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine and Research Institute for Medical Sciences)
  • 김경옥 (충남대학교 보건대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 조영채 (충남대학교 의학전문대학원 예방의학교실 및 의학연구소)
  • Received : 2013.05.02
  • Accepted : 2013.08.07
  • Published : 2013.08.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the relationships between emotional labour and depressive symptoms among nurses in university hospitals. Subjects were 514 nurses working at three university hospitals in Daejeon City, and the survey was a structured self- administered questionnaire based from April 1 until May 31 2012. As a results, the level of depressive symptoms by the subjects emotional labour level was significantly higher in the group with higher total average points of the emotional labour than the lower group, As for the correlation between the level of depressive symptoms and emotional labour factors, the depressive symptoms points showed significant positive correlation with the total points of the emotional labour. As a result of hierarchical multiple regression, age, leisure time, coffee consumption, subjective health status, physical burden of work, sense of satisfaction at work, fit to the job and emotional labour were selected as significant variables and related variables effecting the level of depressive symptoms. These variables' descriptive power was 39.4%, especially, it can be seen that 11.0% descriptive power increased by putting the emotional labor variables. The results above imply that there is significant relation between emotional labor and depressive symptoms and various variables such as socio-demographic characteristics, health-related behavior factors and job-related factors. Also, it can be seen that the emotional labour and depressive symptoms showed significant positive correlation. Therefore, the development and implementation of a program to control emotional labor appropriately should be required for lowering the level of depressive symptoms.

본 연구는 대학병원에 근무하는 간호사들의 감정노동과 우울수준과의 관련성을 파악하기 위하여 대전광역시의 3개 대학병원에서 근무하고 있는 간호사 514명을 대상으로 2012년 4월 1일부터 5월 31일까지의 기간 동안에 구조화된 자기기입식 설문지를 사용한 설문조사에 의하였다. 연구결과, 조사대상 간호사들의 감정노동수준에 따른 우울수준은 감정노동의 총 평균점수가 낮은 군보다 높은 군에서 유의하게 높았으며, 우울수준과 감정노동 요인들 간의 상관관계에서도 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보였다. 위계적 다중회귀분석 결과 우울수준에 영향을 미치는 관련변수로는 연령, 여가시간여부, 커피음용여부, 주관적인 건강상태, 업무의 육체적인 부담정도, 업무에 대한 만족도, 업무에 대한 적성여부 및 감정노동 점수가 유의한 변수로 선정되었다. 이들 전체 변수들의 설명력은 39.4%이었으며, 특히 감정노동변수의 투입으로 11.0%의 설명력을 증가시키고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이상과 같은 결과는 조사대상 간호사들이 경험하고 있는 감정노동과 우울은 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보이고 있음을 알 수 있으며 감정노동은 다른 변수보다 우울에 대한 설명력을 증가시키는 것을 알 수 있다. 따라서 우울수준을 낮추기 위해서는 감정노동을 적절하게 통제할 수 있는 프로그램의 개발 및 실시가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

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