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http://dx.doi.org/10.5807/kjohn.2013.22.3.228

Effect of Psychosocial Work Environment and Self-efficacy on Mental Health of Office Workers  

June, Kyung Ja (Department of Nursing, Soonchunhyang University)
Choi, Eun Suk (Department of Nursing, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Mi-Jin (Occupational & Environmental Health Lab, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University)
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing / v.22, no.3, 2013 , pp. 228-239 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study aims to assess the effects of psychosocial work environment and self-efficacy on stress, depression, and burn-out among office workers. Methods: Survey data were collected from 331 office workers who worked in one workplace from April 10 to 30, 2012. The impact of psychosocial work environment and self-efficacy on stress, depression, and burn-out was analyzed with hierarchical multiple regression using SAS version 9.3. Results: Work-family conflicts and emotional demands were identified as main factors influencing mental health. Other work environment factors influencing mental health were role clarity for stress, possibilities for development, meaning-of work, social support-from supervisors and job insecurity for depression, and social community at work for burn-out. Self-efficacy was correlated with most psychosocial work environment and factor with independent influence on stress and depression. The final models including general characteristics, psychosocial work environment, and self-efficacy accounted for 34%, 44%, and 36% for stress, depression, and burn-out respectively. Conclusion: To promote mental health in office workers, there is a need to decrease work-family conflicts and emotional demands and to improve work organization and job contents, social support, and self-efficacy.
Keywords
Psychosocial work environment; Self-efficacy; Stress; Depression; Burn-out;
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