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Fatigue Symptoms and Its Related Factors among Clerical Public Officers  

Cho, Kwang-Hee (Dept. of Public Health, Graduate School of Chungnam National University)
Yang, Hye-Kyeong (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and public Health, College of Medicine Chungnam National University)
Kim, Kwang-Hwan (Dept. of Hospital Management Gykonyang University)
Cho, Young-Chae (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and public Health, College of Medicine Chungnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion / v.24, no.2, 2007 , pp. 29-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: The administrative employees of government were analyzed on their levels of fatigue symptoms to reveal the various factors related to them. Methods: The self-administered questionnaires were performed, during the period between Dec. 5th, 2005 and Jan. 31st, 2006, to 1,005 individuals in the service of general administration located in Daejeon Metropolitan City. The survey items included subjects' socio-demographic and job-related characteristics, health-related behavior, degree of job demand, job autonomy, social support in work, type A behavior pattern, locus of control, sense of self-esteem, and degree of fatigue. The study results were analyzed and the authors came to the following major findings, by univariate and multiple regression analysis with degree of fatigue dependent variables and other variables independent. Results and Conclusions: The study results indicated that the level of fatigue symptoms is so complicatedly influenced by variable factors as well as job-related characteristics such as socio-demographic characteristics, rank in work, or job career, to a greater extent, by job specifications and personality traits(type A) like whether performing health-related behavior or not, job demand, job autonomy, social support in work, or sense of self-esteem. Thus the effective strategy for stress reduction among governmental employees requires additional programs focusing on innovated job specifications and managed personality trait.
Keywords
Fatigue symptoms; Clerical public officers; Moderating factors;
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