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Welfare News

  • Korea Association of Social Workers
    • Social Workers
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    • no.11 s.43
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    • pp.55-57
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    • 2005
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The Impacts of Social Support on Industrial Injured Workers' Self-rated Health (산업재해 근로자의 사회적 지지가 주관적 건강에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ji Eun;Hahm, Myung-il
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 2022
  • Background: Social support contributes directly and indirectly to maintaining physical, mental, and social well-being. The aim of the study was to identify the impact of social support on self-rated health among Korean industrial accident workers. Methods: This study used data from the panel study of workers' compensation insurance (PSWCI). The final subjects were 2,759 workers who responded to a 2018 to 2020 PSWCI. Social support was defined as social contact with friends, neighbors, family, and social participation activities like religious activity, social activity, and club activity. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate causal relationships between social support and self-rated health using a generalized estimating equation model. Results: Proportion of workers' good self-rated health steadily increased (2018: n=1,447, 63.2%; 2019: n=1,542, 66.2%; 2020: n=1,653, 67.3%). Higher levels of social contacts with friend (worse: reference; same: β=0.442) and higher levels of social activity (yes: reference; no: β=-0.173) were especially associated with good self-rated health. Conclusion: This study confirmed social support positively influenced self-rated health among the self-rated health of industrial injured workers. The results of this study suggested that recovery policies that the government served should include programs enhancing social support for improving health among industrial injured workers.

A System Theory Approach to Social Support for Multi-cultural Families with a Focus on Formal Support Systems (다문화가족의 사회적 지지에 대한 체계론적 접근 - 공적 지원체계를 중심으로 -)

  • Hong, Sung-Hee
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.23-47
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate social workers' personal experiences providing social support to multi-cultural family in a multi-cultural family center. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with 14 social workers at the multi-cultural family center, and were analyzed using a phenomenological research method. The major findings were as follows : The social workers' personal experiences with and understanding of social support were classified as 4 categories : 'source of emotional support to the multi-cultural family', 'diverse and systematic educational support', 'excessive demands on material support', and 'daily life support and connection with community network'. The social workers recognized emotional and educational support as essential factors in providing social support to multi-cultural family. However, the social workers' perceptions of material support derived from negative personal experiences stemming from excessive demands and misunderstanding for material support. These results showed that social workers at the multi-cultural family center provided multi-cultural families with social support and that they interacted with community support system and multi-cultural families to increase their satisfaction.

An Influence of Social Workers' Social Capital on Organizational Citizenship Behavior - focused on Social workers in Kwangjoo metropolitan and Jeon-nam Province -

  • Lee, Hun-Hee;Lee, Jung-Seo
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.127-137
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    • 2016
  • This study is an objective research to verify causality between social worker's social capital and OCB in Jeon-nam province including Kwangjoo. Survey was done directly from 255 social workers working in social welfare facilities. Study methodology was the structural equation to verify the influence of social capital on organized citizens' activities and the mediator effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Using Fornell and Locker's two-step approach, this study verified the similarity between direct effectiveness and indirect effectiveness through bootstrap. I hope that the result of this study will be used as objective and academic material for social workers who work hard with sense of duty at field and expect that there will be a intensive follow-up research which can make social workers' social capital and make it stronger.