• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.312-323
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• 2014

The purposes of this study were to examine effects of job-seeking stress, adult attachment, self-assertiveness on depression among Korean college students. Data were collected through self reported structured questionnaire form 239 Korean college students by convenient sampling methods from April 20 to May 30, 2013. The mean score of depression 14.38(SD=9.81) and 27.6% of the subjects were depression risk groups. A hierarchical multiple regression showed that job-seeking stress (${\beta}$=0.31, p<.001) and adult attachment (${\beta}$=0.32, p<.001) were identified as significant predictors of depression of college students after adjusting for gender, grade, living arrangement, satisfaction for major. And these variables accounted for 34% of depression (F=12.20, p<.001). Therefore, therapeutic nursing intervention should be developed to reduce job-seeking stress and to control attachment-related anxiety, avoidance as a way to regulate depression for Korean college students.

• Journal of Labour Economics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.177-205
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• 2001

This study investigates a long-tenn effect of labor career during middle life on the retirement process and income status later in life course. Two waves of KLIPS (Korean Labor Longitudinal Panel Survey) data sets collected in 1998 and 1999, are employed, which include detailed information on economic activities among those aged 15 and over. Results show that temporary, contracted workers during middle life not only have higher risk of job loss and poverty than those in permanent work status but also they are more likely to experience a stressful retirement process later in life course.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.85-116
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• 2016

The present study aims to explore the causes of employment difficulty on the basis of job applicant's interest from P-E (person-environment) fit perspective. Our approach relied on a textual analytic method to reveal insights from their situational interests in a job search during the change of labor market. Thus, to investigate the type of major interests and psychological responses, user-generated texts in a social community were collected for analysis between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015 by crawling the online-community in regard to job seeking and sharing information and opinions. The results of topic analysis indicated user's primary interests were divided into four types: perception of vocation expectation, employment pre-preparation behaviors, perception of labor market, and job-seeking stress. Specially, job applicants put mainly concerns of monetary reward and a form of employment, rather than their work values or career exploration, thus youth job applicants expressed their psychological responses using contextualized language (e.g., slang, vulgarisms) for projecting their unstable state under uncertainty in response to environmental changes. Additionally, they have perceived activities in the restricted preparation (e.g., certification, English exam) as determinant factors for success in employment and suffered form job-seeking stress. On the basis of these findings, current unemployment matters are totally attributed to the absence of pursing the value of vocation and job in individuals, organizations, and society. Concretely, job seekers are preoccupied with occupational prestige in social aspect and have undecided vocational value. On the other hand, most companies have no perception of the importance of human resources and have overlooked the needs for proper work environment development in respect of stimulating individual motivation. The attempt in this study to reinterpret the effect of environment as for classifying job applicant's interests in reference to linguistic and psychological theories not only helps conduct a more comprehensive meaning for understanding social matters, but guides new directions for future research on job applicant's psychological factors (e.g., attitudes, motivation) using topic analysis.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.29-38
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Korean women's experience of anxiety & depression and socioeconomic level. We used Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey VI-1 data. Study population were consisted of 3,453 female adults, and used a binary logistic regression analysis to identify the relationship between socioeconomic status factors and experience of anxiety & depression after adjusting health factors. It was identified the variables that affect experience symptoms of anxiety & depression is age, marital status, education, income level, economic activity, health condition and stress. Based on the analysis, Korean women's socioeconomic level and anxiety & depression experience concluded to be associated. Thus, the program for low income, unemployed and low educated level women is needed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.6092-6101
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• 2014

This study examined the job experience of visiting supervisors for multicultural families. To achieve the goal of this study, data was collected by in-depth interviews with 7 visiting supervisors for multicultural families. For an analysis of the data, the grounded theory approach by Strauss and Corbin [11] was employed. The results of an analysis of the categories are detailed below. Through an open coding process, a total of 124 concepts, 33 subcategories, and 13 categories were produced. The central phenomenon was 'uncertain employment '. From the axial coding, the causal conditions were 'employment for economic reasons' and 'frequent policy and regulation changes'. The contextual conditions were 'uneasiness about the evaluation result', 'unilateral work instruction system', and 'little improvement of treatment'. Intervention conditions were 'high level of satisfaction with work', 'handy source of income', and 'no other alternative'. Action/interaction strategies were 'efforts for contract extension' and 'receptive attitude'. The consequences were 'hope to retain employment' and 'agonizing over their rights'.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to understand how a dental hygienist is viewed by students in terms of both image and job /employment perception using structural equations. This together with the incorporation of available online information would help in collating the necessary data for ensuring adequate manpower of dental hygienists' in the future. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS Statistics 24.0 and AMOS Graphics 21.0 statistics packages. It was found that students who perceive employment positively have a positive image of a dental hygienist even if a new infectious disease were to occur. They appreciate that a negative image of a dental hygienist's job during an epidemic could cause a negative perception of employment as a dental hygienist. Those who think negatively of the internet as a source of information believe that the internet has a lot of false information, is harmful, promotes anxiety, and has been shown to promote negative perceptions about employment as a dental hygienist. Those who think positively of internet information think that dental hygienists are susceptible to infection and can transmit infection, which has been shown to negatively affect their perception of employment. In conclusion, it is important to form an image of a dental hygienist through the recognition of the correct internet information in the period of new infectious diseases.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.69-79
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• 2017

Objectives: This research intends to comprehend the relation of figure cognition, self-esteem and vocational anxiety perceived by nursing students then, test the mediator effect of self appearance esteem in the relation of vocational anxiety and figure cognition. Methods: This research conducted a survey targeting 240 female university students in their senior years in 3 nursing universities with 4-year curriculum. The collected data is from the average and the SPSS / WIN 21.0 calculated standard deviation. The analyzed correlation was used to route using model AMOS 20.0. Results: As a result of conducting the Sobel Test, that figure cognition affects vocational anxiety, mediating and self appearance esteem, vocational anxiety was shown to have decreasing mediation effect (-3.827, p<0.001). Conclusions: The Anxiety of Nursing Students at Work requires developing an intervention program for improving the appearance, self-esteem and positive body awareness.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.149-160
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• 2018

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of professional self-concept on the relationship between professor-student interaction and job-seeking anxiety among nursing students. Methods : A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a convenient sampling method with data collected from a sample of 294 nursing students. The structured questionnaire included items to assess job-seeking anxiety, professional self-concept, and professor-student interaction among nursing students. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression using the SPSS 24.0 program. Mediation analysis was performed according to the Sobel test. Results : Analysis of the mediating effect of professional self-concept showed a significant mediating influence of professional self-concept on the relationship between professor-student interaction and job-seeking anxiety. Conclusion : The findings suggest that professional self-concept may play a role in increasing the effect of professor-student interaction on job-seeking anxiety. Therefore, this study underscores the need to consider ways of enhancing professional self-concept during interventions for nursing students.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.72
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• pp.7-51
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• 2015

Job seeking for young adults after college in South Korea is much fierce and highly competitive. Many job seekers tend to experience despair, frustration, and insecurity in such a dire social situation. This study focuses on the job seeking experiences of younger generation people by closely examining the self-introduction letters. This work pays keen attention to the narrative strategies and portrayal of the applicants' self-described activities in these forms of letters through a detailed textual and cultural analysis. In doing so, this analysis attempts to contextualize the complex structures of feeling for the part of young job seekers as well as various social factors and pressures that influence on them.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.145-166
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• 2020

The present study examines whether fear of negative evaluation, social comparison and self-criticism mediate the relationship between insecure attachment and career indecision. Participants are 401 unemployed people in their 20s who have never had a job. The major findings of this study are as follows. First, correlation analysis indicates that both anxious attachment and avoidant attachment are positively related to fear of negative evaluation and self-criticism. Also, anxious attachment is positively correlated with social comparison, whereas avoidant attachment is negatively correlated with it. Second, both insecure attachments have significant positive correlation with career indecision. Third, it shows the respective unique mechanisms by which each of the two insecure attachment forms are related to career indecision are distinctive: Specifically, The linkage between anxious attachment and career indecision is partially mediated by self-criticism and social comparison, whereas avoidant attachment is indirectly related to career indecision through a full mediation of self-criticism and social comparison. Implications and limitations of this study are discussed.