An Analysis of Studies of Workers' Stress conducted in Korea from 1981 to 2000

근로자의 스트레스에 대한 국내 간호 논문 분석($1981{\sim}2000$)

The purposes of this study were to identify patterns and trends of nursing studies of workers' stress conducted in Korea over the last two decades, and to suggest the direction of future research activities. Research studies of workers' stress were collected from the abstract and the title lists of studies using internet search. The total number of studies used for this study was 118. The analysis of these studies showed that the studies of workers' stress have increased rapidly since 1995, but most of them were non-experimental design studies. They tended to be conducted more on nurses, and used confusedly in stress terms. Instruments developed by the authors were the most popular. Moreover, the organizational variables of the stress-related concept were barely used except nurses' stress. Therefore, it was needed to identify and clarify the terms of stress among the authors, and to develop the workers' stress management programs and examine their effects. Especially studies that include the organizational variables of workers' stress need to be done in the future.