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The Relationships between Emotional Labour, Depressive Symptoms and Presenteeism among Counselors in Call Centers

콜센터 상담원들의 감정노동 및 우울과 프리젠티즘과의 관련성

  • Baek, Jong-Tae (Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Chungnam National University) ;
  • Cho, Young-Chae (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine)
  • 백종태 (충남대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 조영채 (충남대학교 의학전문대학원 예방의학교실)
  • Received : 2015.03.11
  • Accepted : 2015.06.11
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

This study examined the level of an emotional labour, depressive symptoms, and presenteeism of counselors working in a call center depending on socio-demographic characteristics, health-related factors, and job-related factors. Especially, the main purpose of a survey was to investigate the relevance to an emotional labour, the level of depressive symptoms and presenteeism. The research subjects were 304 counselors working at two call centers in Daejeon, and the survey was conducted from April 1, 2014 to May 31, 2014, using a structured self-administered questionnaire. As a result, the emotional labour, depressive symptoms and presenteeism experienced by the research subjects had a deep relation to many variables like socio-demographic characteristics, health-related factors and job-related factors. Especially, presenteeism showed a meaningful positive correlation with depressive symptoms and emotional labour factors. According to the result of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis, the meaningful variables related to presenteeism were age, the amount of a physical burden, the level of depressive symptoms, the surface action of an emotional labour. Therefore, to lower down the counselors' presenteeism, the development and implement of a mental healthcare program to control not only depressive symptoms and the level of an emotional labour is urgently needed.

본 연구는 콜센터에서 종사하고 있는 상담원들의 인구사회학적 특성, 건강관련행위 특성 및 직업관련 특성에 따른 감정노동, 우울수준과 프리젠티즘 수준을 파악하고, 특히 감정노동 및 우울수준과 프리젠티즘과의 관련성을 파악하고자 실시하였다. 조사대상은 대전광역시 2개의 콜센터에서 근무하고 있는 상담원 304명으로 하였으며, 자료 수집은 2014년 4월 1일부터 5월 31일까지의 기간 동안에 구조화된 자기기입식 설문지를 사용한 설문조사에 의하였다. 연구결과, 조사대상 상담원들의 감정노동, 우울 및 프리젠티즘은 인구사회학적 특성, 건강관련행위 특성 및 직업관련 특성의 여러 변수들과 유의한 관련성이 있었다. 특히 조사대상자의 프리젠티즘은 우울 및 감정노동 하위요인들과 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보였다. 위계적 다중회귀분석 결과, 프리젠티즘과 관련성이 있는 변수로는 연령, 업무의 신체적인 부담정도, 우울수준, 감정노동의 표면행위가 유의한 변수로 선정되었다. 따라서 프리젠티즘을 낮추기 위해서는 상담원들의 우울과 감정노동 수준을 적절하게 통제할 수 있는 정신건강관리 프로그램의 개발 및 실시가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

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