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http://dx.doi.org/10.11627/jkise.2017.40.4.230

The Effects of Positive Psychological Capital on Job Stress of Construction Workers  

Lee, Hwa-Ju (Dept. of Production & Management Engineering, Hanbat National University)
Park, Soo-Yong (Dept. of Production & Management Engineering, Hanbat National University)
Lee, Dong-Hyung (Dept. of Production & Management Engineering, Hanbat National University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.40, no.4, 2017 , pp. 230-236 More about this Journal
Abstract
The recent domestic construction market is in a difficult situation due to reduction of the government's SOC budget and new orders from public-sector, and the deterioration of housing supply situation in the private sector etc. In addition, the number of disasters in the construction industry has increased in recent years with 26,570 people (up 5.7% from the previous year) in 2016, unlike other industries that are in a declining trend. As such, the construction industry has unique characteristics and problems such as high industrial accidents rate, abnormal subcontracting structure, excessive working hours and work intensity. As a result, the construction workers have a lot of job stresses. Job stress has been recognized as one of the major causes of industrial accidents and many researches have been conducted on that. However, most of the researches were about the factors that induce job stress and how these factors affect disaster occurrence, job satisfaction, job performance, turnover intentions, and job exhaustion. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of positive psychological capital on job stress, which is emerging as a new human resources development paradigm useful in corporate management in order to find ways to reduce job stress. To do this, 347 data collected from construction workers in Daejeon, Sejong, and Chungcheong provinces were analyzed using statistical package(IBM SPSS 22) for basic statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analysis. As a result, positive psychological capital has shown an alleviate effect on job stress. In particular, the higher the optimism, hope, and resiliency of positive psychological capital, the lower the job stress. However, the higher the self - efficacy, the higher the job stress.
Keywords
Construction Industry Workers; Positive Psychological Capital; Job Stress; Optimism; Hope; Resiliency; Self-Efficacy;
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