• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.451-481
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• 2011

This study is the identify of influence in the social adjustment stress on foreign female immigrants in Korea. the study is like followings: First, offering the opportunity of employment will increase social activity of foreign female immigrants in Korea, and it will be helpful for their adaptation in Korean society. Second, the service of supporting family should be provided for settlement of foreign female immigrants in Korea, and proper education for affirmative adaptation of them in all spheres of home life, language, culture and it should be performed through their family. Third, systematic service of social welfare should be offered. The adoption of the system which overcome geographical limitation and can provide the service to needed people is required. In addition, for foreign female immigrants in Korea who cannot receive basic Korean language's education because of geographical limitation, it will be another solution which creates programs about Korean language's education. Finally, for understanding culture shock and keeping social relationship, the plans of supporting foreign female immigrants in Korea are required.

• Proceedings of the SOHE Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.69-69
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• 2003

우리 사회의 고부관계는 예로부터 갈등관계로 인식되어져 왔다. 핵가족화, 여성취업 등 오늘날의 많은 사회적 변화에도 불구하고 여전히 고부관계는 복잡하고 갈등적인 가족문제에서 벗어나지 못하고 있다. 본 연구는 고부관계에서 일어나는 스트레스 유무 그 자체보다 이에 대한 효율적인 대처방법이 더 중요함을 인식하고 첫째, 고부관계에서 며느리가 지각하는 스트레스의 유형과 그 정도는 어떠하며 둘째, 스트레스에 대한 며느리의 대처유형과 그 정도는 어떠하며 셋째, 대처유형과 스트레스 정도에는 어떤 관련성이 있는가를 살펴보고자 하였다.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.591-599
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• 2016

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between job searching efficacy and employment stress in the dental hygiene students. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was completed by 235 dental hygiene students in Gyeongnam from September to October 30, 2015. The questionnaire consisted of general characteristics of the subjects (5 items), employment stress (22 items) and job searching self-efficacy (27 items). Data were analyzed by SPSS 20. program. Results: The lower grade students tended to have higher education service quality. Those who were dissatisfied with major had higher schoolwork stress. Poor economic status had a relation to family stress. The employment stress has an effect on job motivation, self-esteem, job skill, and human relation skill. Conclusions: It is necessary to reduce employment stress of the dental hygiene students. That should be provide support of education environment control, opportunity of self-development on improve the self esteem and human relation skill, from freshman to broaden understanding of the majors, for the employment stress coping skill.

• Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.215-226
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was conducted in order to investigate factors associated with employment stress and the relationships among employment stress, depression, and body mass index (BMI) among college nursing students. Methods: Subjects included 319 students at two colleges in Kyonggi and Chungbuk province, who were asked to complete a survey questionnaire. T-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were used for statistical analysis of data. Results: Results of this study showed an average value of 53.39 for the total employment stress scale, and both values for familial environmental stress and school environmental stress were relatively higher among subscales of employment stress. The average score on the depression scale was 10.18 indicating slightly high, and BMI was 20.35 with an obesity fraction of 12.3%. In addition, the results also indicated that they suffered from much stronger employment stress according to their severity of depression. Overall factors that affect employment stress included depression, age, economic status, and whether family members live together or not. However, BMI had no significant statistical effect on employment stress. Conclusion: Results of this study suggest that it is necessary for students to measure and control their employment stress and depression, because employment stress is closely associated with depression.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.101-113
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• 2010

This study examined the relationship between maternal employment, maternal job characteristics, spousal support and parenting stress, using a sample of 502 mothers (207 employed and 295 nonemployed mothers) who had 1st and 2nd grade children. The participants completed a set of questionnaires. Data were analyzed by means of Pearson's correlation, simple regression analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Our results indicated that maternal employment was not significantly related to parenting stress. It was also found that employed mothers experienced less parenting stress when they perceived greater job satisfaction and higher spousal support. Lastly, spousal support moderated the impact of job satisfaction on employed mothers' parenting stress, indicating that the relationship between job satisfaction and parenting stress was stronger for the high spousal support group than for the low spousal support group.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.143-152
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of family stress on work stress and to examine the effects of family and work stress on psychological wellbeing in employed men and women. The analyses of the present study were based on a sample of 263 full-time employed men and 258 full-time employed women aged 30-49 in dual-earner families. There were significant gender differences in marital stress, parenting stress and psychological well-being with women reporting higher levels of stress. However, employed men and women experienced similar levels of work stress. The results from regression analyses showed that stress in the family domain contributed significantly to work stress. Both marital stress and parenting stress were significantly related to higher levels of work stress fro employed men and women. The findings of this study indicated that higher levels of marital stress and work stress were predictive of psychological well-being for men and women in dual-earner couples. Among employed women, marital stress and work stress were more highly related to psychological well-being than among employed men.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.2548-2555
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a re-employment education to job-seeking anxiety, job-seeking stress and Career belief in an effort to prove the effectiveness of re-employment education. The subjects in this study were 67 believer who were users of G church in the city of K. A re-employment education was conducted in fourteen sessions, once a week. The major findings of the study were as follows: First, the experimental group who participated in the re-employment education felt less job-seeking anxiety. Second, the experimental group who participated in the re-employment education felt less job-seeking stress. Third, the experimental group who participated in the re-employment education showed improvement in Career belief.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.65-77
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to offer basic data in order to make it possible for becoming the mentally more matured dental hygienist by being aware of stress factors on employment in preliminary dental hygienists and examining a coping plan according to it. The self-administered questionnaire research was carried out targeting Dental Hygiene Students at 4 colleges in metropolitan area for 1 month from October to November in 2007. Totally 209 questionnaires were collected. Among them, 206 copies were analyzed with methods in frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and ANOVA analysis by using SPSS WIN10.0 statistical program. As a result, the following conclusions were obtained. 1. 84.5% out of subjects were the active students. 95.2% and over 95.6%, respectively, were surveyed to be more than 'moderate' as for the academic achievement level and the satisfaction with college life. 2. the majority in the survey subjects were researched to receive high stress as for 'a guiding professor doesn't lead and have interest in my employment, thereby being disappointing' and 'failing to be employed is likely to lead to hurting pride so much'. 3. a coping type with stress in the survey subjects was researched to select a coping plan much as for 'sincerely hoping for the work to be well done', 'going out for a change', 'establishing a few countermeasures for solving a problem', 'overeating', and 'waiting while thinking it to be solved some time.' 4. most of stress factors had high correlation with a coping type with saying of 'trying to be alone as a whole', and had high correlation with 'failing to be employed is likely to lead to hurting pride so much' and 'overeating'. Even additionally, it was surveyed to have high correlation with 'smoking' and 'depending on the past experience'.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.23-45
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• 2010

The purposes of this study were to explore the level of emotional availability of working mothers and their 24~48month-olds (67 dyads: 33 boys and 34 girls) in child care centers and to examine the relationship between the mother-child emotional availability and the related variables of working mothers and their children. Emotional Availability Scales (EA, 3rd edition) developed by Biringen, Z., Robinson, J., & and Emde, R.N. (1998) was used. Mother's work-family conflict, maternal parenting stress, and maternal depression, temperament of child, personal background were measured. The results of this study were as follows: The level of mother-child emotional availability was above in the middle level. There were significant differences in the mother-child emotional availability by maternal educational level and family income level, and significant negative correlation between maternal parenting stress and mother-child emotional availability. There was significant difference in the mother-child emotional availability by the starting point of child care experience. Mother-child emotional availability were significantly explained by family income level, maternal parenting stress, and the starting point of child care experience.

• Proceedings of the KHMA Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.368-368
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• 2012