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The Mediating Effects of Emotional Dysregulation on the Relationship between Care Worker's Job Stress and Mental Health

요양보호사의 직무스트레스와 정신건강의 관계에서 정서조절곤란의 매개효과

  • Goh, Jinkyung (Department of Counseling Psychology, Soongsil Cyber University)
  • 고진경 (숭실사이버대학교 상담심리학과)
  • Received : 2019.05.01
  • Accepted : 2019.06.20
  • Published : 2019.06.28
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Abstract

The study examined the mediating effect of emotional dysregulation on the relationship between care worker's job stress and mental health. The Geriatric Caregiver's Job Stress Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and The Symptom Check-List-90-R were administered to 154 care workers. Through the hierarchical regression analysis, direct interrelationship among job stress, emotional dysregulation, and mental health was examined. Furthermore, the statistical significance of mediating effect of emotional dysregulation on the relationship between job stress and mental health was tested through the bootstrapping. The result showed that the lack of emotional clarity and the limited access to emotion regulation strategies appeared to have a complete mediation effect on the relationship between job stress and mental health. That meant the necessity of adaptive emotional regulation in dealing with mental health problem elicited by job stress.

본 연구는 요양보호사의 직무스트레스와 정신건강과의 관계에서 정서조절곤란의 매개효과를 검증하였다. 노인요양기관에서 근무하는 요양보호사 154명을 대상으로 요양보호사 직무스트레스척도, 한국판 정서조절곤란 질문지, 간이정신진단검사를 시행하였다. 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 직무스트레스, 정서조절곤란, 정신건강 간의 직접 효과를 검증하고, 부트스트랩 검증을 통해 직무스트레스와 정신건강에 대한 정서조절곤란의 매개효과 유의성을 검증하였다. 분석결과, 직무스트레스와 정신건강과의 관계에서 정서조절곤란의 하위요인 중 전략적 접근 제한과 명료성의 부족은 완전매개역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 요양보호사의 정신건강을 위해서는 직무스트레스를 경감시키는 것만으로는 부족하고, 요양보호사들이 자신의 부정적인 정서를 다룰 수 있는 조절능력을 기를 수 있는 방안이 필요함을 시사한다.

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Fig. 1. The mediation model

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics of Variables

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Table 2. Correlation Among Job Stress, Emotion Dysregulation and Mental Health

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Table 3. Significance Test of Path Coefficient

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Table 4. Significance Test of Mediation of Emotion Dysregulation

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