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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2019.17.6.307

The Mediating Effects of Emotional Dysregulation on the Relationship between Care Worker's Job Stress and Mental Health  

Goh, Jinkyung (Department of Counseling Psychology, Soongsil Cyber University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.17, no.6, 2019 , pp. 307-314 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study examined the mediating effect of emotional dysregulation on the relationship between care worker's job stress and mental health. The Geriatric Caregiver's Job Stress Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and The Symptom Check-List-90-R were administered to 154 care workers. Through the hierarchical regression analysis, direct interrelationship among job stress, emotional dysregulation, and mental health was examined. Furthermore, the statistical significance of mediating effect of emotional dysregulation on the relationship between job stress and mental health was tested through the bootstrapping. The result showed that the lack of emotional clarity and the limited access to emotion regulation strategies appeared to have a complete mediation effect on the relationship between job stress and mental health. That meant the necessity of adaptive emotional regulation in dealing with mental health problem elicited by job stress.
Keywords
Care Worker; Job Stress; Mental Health; Emotion Dysregulation; Bootstrapping; Emotion Clarity;
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