• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.453-467
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• 2022

This study aims to conduct a content analysis of research on workplace counseling with a focus on workplace counselors. This study analyzed a total of 22 research papers on workplace counselors published until January 2021 including thesis, dissertation and journal articles, focusing on year of publication, research topics, subjects, and methodologies. The results are as follows. The number of publications in this area has been increasing continuously since 2008. The most frequently studied topics were roles and competencies of workplace counselors and workplace counselors' adjustment to the job. Workplace counselors(77%) were the most commonly studied research subjects and all three parties of workplace counseling(18%) followed. The qualitative method was employed way more (63%) than mixed methods(27%) and quantitative method(9%). The implications of the findings and recommendations for future research on the basis of the results of this study are provided.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.83-105
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• 2007

The present study investigated counseling services and work conditions perceived by counselors in Healthy Family Support Centers. Questionnaire survey by mail was used to collect data from 32 counselors in Healthy Family Support Centers. Major findings of this study were as follows. First, many counselors in Healthy Family Support Centers perceived work load of counseling services heavily though they thought counseling work attractive and they would keep on working. Second, many counselors had a positive view of work conditions as a workplace but not a few of them complained about physical work conditions including poor facilities like lack of counseling room space in Centers. In addition to this, many suggestions were proposed to improve the counseling services and work conditions perceived by counselors in Healthy Family Support Centers.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.587-592
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to grasp the mediating effect of workplace spirituality on the relationship between emotional labor and life satisfaction of art psychology counselors. The subjects of the study included 196 art psychological counselors in Sokcho city. As an analysis method, the SPSS program was used to perform frequency analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis for the causal relationships between variables and the verification of the mediating effect. First, for the relationship between the emotional labor of art psychology counselors and their overall life satisfaction, both the surface behavior and inner behavior factors, which are sub-factors of emotional labor, have partial mediating effects on overall life satisfaction. Second, in the relationship between the emotional labor of art psychology counselors and their subjective life satisfaction, the inner behavioral factor, which is a sub-factor of emotional labor, has a partial mediating effect in relation to workplace spirituality. This means that workplace spirituality plays a mediating role in the relationship between emotional labor and life satisfaction of art psychology counselors. This study is considered as basic data for preparing plans for improving the life satisfaction of artistic psychological counselors.