• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.15-24
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• 2016

The purpose of this converged study was to examine the influencing factors on occupational stress in Korean workers. Data were collected with a convenience sample of 207 male workers living in Jeollanam-do region. The structured questionnaires measured the general and job-related factors, social support, and occupational stress. The results were as follows. (1) About half of participants had higher scores in occupational stress. (2) The annual income, supervisors' support, and coworkers' support were statistically significant variables predicting the level of occupational stress among Korean workers, accounting for 36% of the variability. The results of the study indicate that it is necessary to establish strategic workforce planning for workers to reduce occupational stress.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.26-44
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• 2022

Job stress experienced during work has a positive effect on the organization, such as performance improvement, but if not properly managed, it can cause physical diseases such as digestive diseases and mental diseases such as depression and neurological diseases. If job stress persists for a long time, it causes emotional exhaustion and depression, which has a significant adverse effect on individuals and organizations, so proper management is essential. Therefore, in this study, a descriptive survey study was conducted using a self-report questionnaire method to find out the relationship between job stress, emotional exhaustion and depression of medical institution workers. As a result of the analysis, it was found that job stress of medical institution workers had a significant (+) effect on emotional exhaustion and depression, and emotional exhaustion of medical institution workers had a significant (+) effect on depression. Through this study, it was found that there was a significant relationship between job stress, emotional exhaustion, and depression of hospital employees, and that emotional exhaustion acts as a parameter in the relationship between job stress and depression. Considering that job stress of hospital employees causes adverse organizational effects, such as threatening workers' mental and physical health and causing deterioration in the quality of medical services, organizational efforts will be needed to relieve and properly manage job stress of hospital employees.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.159-167
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• 2020

This study was intended to examine how the job stress of enterpriser affects decision quality when they make rational decision making, and to empirical analysis on whether decision quality can be enhanced through corporate network and absorption capacity. For this purpose, 356 survey data were collected from small business enterpriser and analyzed using SPSS v.25 and AMOS v.24. Studies have shown that among job stress, challenging stress has positive(+) influence on decision quality, disturbing stress has negative(-) influence on decision quality, and both corporate network and absorption capacity have positive(+) influence on decision quality. In addition, challenge stress and hindrance stress have been shown to have a positive(+) influence on decision quality through corporate network and absorption capacity. These findings confirmed that the challenge factors of job stress had a positive effect on decision quality, and confirmed that the corporate network and absorption capacity were important factors in enhancing decision-making products. As such, conclusions were discussed and implications and directions for follow-up studies were presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.569-580
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is empirically to analyze the mediated effects of job stress on the influence of positive psychological capital of care workers' enthusiasm. The research method was self_report questionnaire was completed by 383 careworkers at care homes for the elderly in the Seoul metropolitan area between December 10th, 2018 to January 11th, 2019. and date analyzed using the IBM AMOS 22.0 program. As a result, First, positive psychology capital has been shown to have a negative effect on job stress. Second, positive psychology capital has been shown to have a positive effect on the enthusiasm of care workers. Third, job stress has been shown to have a negative effect on the enthusiasm of care workers. Fourth, in the relationship between positive psychology capital and care worker's enthusiasm, job stress revealed that it had a partial mediated effect. This means that positive psychological capital of the care workers has a negative effect on job stress, and the job stress, which has been negatively effected by positive psychological capital, has a positive mediated effect on the enthusiasm of the worker.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.87-95
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• 2015

At the threshold of a convergence age, this study aims to facilitate a new understanding of a job stress measure and the causes of job stress to steer the direction of future studies on this topic, and to examine research trends relating to job stress in the country. To this end, in this study, 64 research papers related to job stress and published between 1995 and 2015 were selected. The highest number of studies was found for the period between 2010 and 2015, following analysis of the date of the research. In total, 73.4%, 14.1%, and 4.7% of the studies comprised survey, correlational, and experimental research, respectively. The majority of the subjects were nurses; 60.9% were hospital nurses. Most of the existing studies were conducted on hospital nurses. Job stress was mainly studied through survey designs, as shown by an analysis of the study methods used.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.145-152
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• 2020

The objective of this study was to examine the degree of job stress and drinking levels among emergency room nurses and to investigate the association between these variables. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires completed by 106 nurses working in emergency room of hospitals from 3 different cities. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 program. The results showed that the mean job stress score was 45.93±6.81 points, while 18.9% of the subjects were in the disordered alcohol use group. Differences in drinking levels were found according to the work experience of the nurses (χ²=8.249, p=.041), while significant differences in job stress scores were found according to marital status (t=-2.72, p=.008) and desire to continue working (t=-2.272, p=.025). There was a significant correlation between job stress and drinking level (r=-.147, p= .000). Measures to lower job stress among emergency room nurses are need based on the findings in the study and it is expected that decreasing the drinking level of nurse would contribute to this.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.202-211
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between job stress, job autonomy, employee support evaluation, and the turnover intentions of workers in the beauty and cosmetics industry. This study assessed 570 workers with 3 months or more of experience in the beauty and cosmetics industry. Data processing was achieved through analyses of frequency, descriptive statistics, exploratory factors, reliability, correlation, and confirmatory factors, as well as the verification of the structural equation model. The results of the study are as follows: first, employee support evaluation in the beauty and cosmetics industry workers was negatively correlated to job stress. Second, employee support evaluation showed a negative relationship with turnover intentions. Third, job stress was found to have a positive relationship with turnover intention.This study suggests that, in order to reduce the turnover intentions of beauty and cosmetics industry workers, it is necessary for employers to make efforts to manage employees' job autonomy, support evaluation, and stress levels.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.496-506
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• 2021

This study examined the relationship between job stress and fatigue symptom of fire-fighting officials. The study subjects were 330 fire-fighting officials working at five fire stations in the D metropolitan city. The study survey was a structured self-administered questionnaire from September 1 to October 31, 2019. The level of fatigue symptoms and job stress were significantly higher (p<.0.001). By the sub-region, the level of fatigue symptoms and job demand were significantly higher (p=0.046), but the decision latitude, the supervisor support, and co-worker support were lower (p=0.006, p<0.001, and p<0.001, respectively). The level of fatigue symptom showed a significant positive correlation with the total score of job stress (r=0.348, p<0.05) and the job demand (r=0.301, p<0.05). In contrast, it showed a significant negative correlation with the decision latitude (r=-0.306, p<0.05), supervisor support (r=-0.340, p<0.05), and co-worker support (r=-0.355, p<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression showed that the odds ratio of the high-risk fatigue group was significantly higher in the high-risk group of job stress than in the low group of job stress (ORs=3.03, 95% CI=1.13~8.12). These findings suggest that the level of fatigue symptoms of fire-fighting officials is related significantly to job stress.

• Korean Security Journal
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• no.34
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• pp.115-137
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• 2013

This study aims to confirm the effect of different types of interpersonal stress factors of private security officers that are prevalent in the course of carrying out their duties on job satisfaction and turnover intention. The authors have examined 175 of the 200 survey questionnaires distributed to the employees of private security firms located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province in December 2012. The result of the analysis indicates that the primary source of stress in the private security officers is the interaction with customers, followed by the relationships with colleagues and superior officers. In addition, colleague-related stress is found to be the only interpersonal stress factor with a statistically significant negative effect on job satisfaction, while both the stress from the relationships with colleagues and superior officers are positively correlated with turnover intention. Furthermore, the colleague-related stress is revealed to mediate job satisfaction which has a statistically significant effect on turnover intention. The result from the study emphasizes the importance of managing the interpersonal stress in private security officers and confirms the necessity of effectively handling the stressful situations in the relationships with colleagues. Moreover, in order to raise job satisfaction levels and minimize turnover which is vital in accomplishing the goal of each organization, causal factors of the stress need to be recognized and handled appropriately. This will provide the future research with an insight into the effective interpersonal stress management and examining other factors of job satisfaction and turnover intention of private security officers.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.363-369
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• 2018

This study examines the effects of mindfulness training on job stress, burnout, and teacher efficacy for middle school and high school teachers. For this study, twenty-four middle school and high school teachers were divided into experimental and control groups. Data analysis was performed using a Mixed ANOVA for teacher's job stress, burnout, and teacher efficacy according to pre-training, post-training and delayed post-training periods. As a result, we found support for time interval and between-group interaction effects for all the dependent variables. In order to investigate any delayed effects, a t-test was performed to analyze measurements taken one month after the completion of training period. The delayed post-training results indicated a significant effect between pre and post scores, meaning the program effects were sustained. Therefore, this study indicates that the mindfulness training program implemented in this research is an effective method for preventing job stress and burnout, as well as influencing the efficiency of work performance for middle school and high school teachers.