• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.454-461
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• 2018

Background: Working conditions and psychosocial work factors have acquired an important role explaining the well-being and performance of professional drivers, including those working in the field of public transport. This study aimed to examine the association between job strain and the operational performance of public transport drivers and to compare the expositions with psychosocial risk at work of three different types of transport workers: taxi drivers, city bus drivers, and interurban bus drivers. Method: A sample of 780 professional drivers was drawn from three transport companies in Bogota (Colombia). The participants answered the Job Content Questionnaire and a set of sociodemographic and driving performance questions, including age, professional driving experience, work schedules, and accidents and penalties suffered in the last 2 years. Results: Analyses showed significant associations between measures of socio-labor variables and key performance indicators such road traffic accidents and penalties. Furthermore, multiple linear regression analysis contributed to explain significantly suffered accidents from key variables of the Job Demand-Control model, essentially from job strain. In addition, throughout post-hoc analyses, significant differences were found in terms of perceived social support, job strain, and job insecurity. Conclusion: Work stress is an issue that compromises the safety of professional drivers. This research provides evidence supporting a significant effect of job strain on the professional driver's performance. Moreover, the statistically significant differences between taxi drivers, city bus drivers, and interurban bus drivers in their expositions to work-related stress suggest the need for tailored occupational safety interventions on each occupational group.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.25-37
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• 2005

Objective : To estimate the magnitude of psychosocial distress and examine eligible factors associated with the development of psychosocial distress in Korean employees, using a nationwide sample. Methods : A total of 6,977 workers were recruited from 245 companies. A structured questionnaire was used to assess sociodemographics, health-related behaviors, job characteristics, social support at work, personality traits (locus of control, type A behavior pattern), self-esteem, and psychosocial distress. Results : The results showed that 23 % of workers were categorized as high stress, 73% as moderate, and 5% as normal. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that psychosocial distress was more common in younger workers, both male and female. Regular exercise was negatively associated with increase of psychosocial distress. In job characteristics, as expected, low decision latitude, high job insecurity, and low social support at work were related to high psychosocial distress. Personality traits such as locus of control and type A behavior pattern, and self-esteem were more powerful predictors of psychosocial distress than general characteristics, health-related behavior, and job characteristics. There were some gender differences. While men who are less educated and single (unmarried, divorced, and separated) experienced higher levels of psychosocial distress than those who are educated and married, women who feel high job demand experienced higher levels of psychosocial distress than those who feel low job demand. Conclusions : The proportion of the high stress group was higher than expected, and psychosocial factors like social support and personality characteristics (e. g. locus of control, type A behavior pattern and self-esteem) were more significant factors for psychosocial distress than other variables. This finding suggests that some psychosocial factors, especially inadequate social support, low self-esteem and lack of internal locus of control for the development of psychosocial distress, will also operate as an intervention strategy in the worksite stress reduction program. It is strongly required that worksite stress reduction programs should be established in at both occupational and level as well as in individual levels.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2021

Backround: Working condition surveys are widely recognized as useful tools for monitoring the quality of working life and the improvements introduced by health and safety policy frameworks at the European and national level. The Italian Workers' Compensation Authority carried out a national survey (Insula) to investigate the employer's perceptions related to working conditions and their impact on health. Methods: The present study is based on the data collected from the Italian survey on health and safety at work (INSULA) conducted on a representative sample of the Italian workforce (n = 8,000). This focuses on the relationship between psychosocial risk factors and self-reported health using a set of logistic and linear regression models. Results: Working conditions such as managerial support, job satisfaction, and role act as protective factors on mental and physical health. On the contrary, workers' risk perceptions related to personal exposure to occupational safety and health risks, concern about health conditions, and work-related stress risk exposure determine a poorer state of health. Conclusions: This study highlights the link between working conditions and self-report health, and this aims to provide a contribution in the field of health at work. Findings show that working conditions must be object of specific preventive measures to improve the workers' health and well-being.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.211-221
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify work-related risk factors associated with upper extremity symptoms among construction workers using the fourth Korean Working Condition Survey(KWCS). Methods: Subjects were 2,724 construction workers selected from 50,007 respondents in the 2014 KWCS. The presence or absence of upper extremity symptoms and work-related risk factors, including individual, physical, and psychosocial factors, were used as variables. A multiple logistic regression analysis was performed in order to evaluate the relationship of the upper extremity symptoms with work-related risk factors. Results: Upper extremity symptoms were significantly associated with: employment type(OR: 1.57, 95% CI: 1.18~2.09); job satisfaction(OR: 2.06, 95% CI: 1.33~3.18); verbal abuse(OR: 2.06, 95% CI: 1.33~3.18); tiring or painful posture(OR: 2.33, 95% CI: 1.73~3.15); carrying or moving heavy loads(OR: 1.68, 95% CI: 1.23~2.24); repetitive hand or arm movement(OR: 1.42, 95% CI: 1.06~1.91) Conclusions: In order to prevent the upper extremity musculoskeletal disease in the construction industry, it is necessary to stabilize employment, enhance job satisfaction, and eliminate violence in the workplace and improve physical work environment.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.5610-5620
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• 2014

본 연구는 일부 사무직 행정공무원들의 직무스트레스 수준을 파악하고 사회심리적 요인(A형 행동유형, 통제신념, 자기존중감)과 직무스트레스와의 관련성을 규명하고자 시도하였다. 연구대상은 C도청에 근무하고 있는 공무원 634명(남자 505명, 여자 129명)이었으며, 자료 수집은 2013년 2월 18일부터 3월 10일까지의 기간 동안에 구조화된 무기명 자기기입식 설문지를 이용한 설문조사에 의하였다. 연구결과, 조사대상자의 직무스트레스 수준은 성별, 연령, 학력, 결혼상태, 직급, 근무경력, 공무원생활에 대한 만족도, 흡연상태, 음주상태, 수면시간, A형행동유형, 통제신념 및 자기존중감에 따라서 유의한 차이를 보였다. 사회심리적 요인과 직무스트레스 수준과의 상관관계를 보면, 업무요구도는 내적 통제신념과 유의한 음의 상관관계를 보였으며, 업무의 자율성은 A형행동유형, 내적 통제신념 및 자기존중감과 유의한 음의 상관관계를 보였다. 상사의 지지도는 외적 통제신념과 유의한 음의 상관관계를 보였다. 위계적다중회귀분석 결과 직무스트레스 수준에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 연령, 주관적인 건강상태, 직위, 잔업시간, 질병으로 인한 결근, 업무에 대한 만족도, 수면시간, 여가시간, 외래진료경험유무, A형행동유형, 통제신념 및 자기존중감이 선정되었으며 이들의 설명력은 32.1%이었다. 위의 모델에서 보면 A형행동유형, 통제신념 및 자기존중감 등의 사회심리적 요인이 추가됨으로 해서 15.0%의 설명력을 증가시켜 직무스트레스에 사회심리적 요인이 큰 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.301-311
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• 2011

본 연구는 사무직 남성 근로자들을 대상으로 이들의 직무스트레스 요인 및 사회심리적 요인과 피로수준 간의 관련성을 파악하며, 피로수준에 유의하게 영향을 미치는 요인들을 규명하고자 하였다. 조사대상은 50인 이상 300인 미만 중소규모 사업장 42개소에 근무하고 있는 사무직 남성 근로자 872명으로 하였으며, 자료수집방법은 2009년 2월 1일부터 2009년 4월 30일까지의 기간 동안에 자기기입식 설문조사를 실시하였다. 연구결과, 조사대상자의 직무스트레스 요인에 따른 피로수준은 업무요구도가 높을수록, 업무의 자율성이 낮을수록, 상사의 지지도가 낮을수록 유의하게 높았다. 사회심리적 요인에 따른 피로수준은 자기존중감이 높을수록 유의하게 높았다. 다중회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 피로수준에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 연령, 주관적 건강상태, 근무경력, 결근횟수, 직장생활만족도, 규칙적 운동유무, 수면시간, 외래진료유무, 업무요구도, 상사의 지지도 및 자기존중감이 유의한 변수로 선정되었다. 위와 같은 연구결과를 볼 때, 직장인의 피로수준은 인구사회학적 특성, 직업관련 특성 및 건강관련행위의 실천여부 뿐만 아니라, 직무스트레스 요인 및 사회심리적 요인과도 유의한 관련이 있음을 시사하였다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.405-422
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• 2010

Occupational musculoskeletal disorders currently account for the largest proportion of the occupational illnesses in Korea. In this research, status of musculoskeletal disorders among the occupational illnesses was examined through workers' compensation claims data. Types and characteristics of musculoskeletal disorders were looked at other data set as well. The data sets included epidemiological investigation data reported by Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, and data collected from occupational disease surveillance reports and Korean occupational health-related scientific journals. Number of cases, incidence rate and insurance benefits for occupational musculoskeletal disorders in Korea are increasing every year. In addition, musculoskeletal disorders occurrence is shifted from large enterprises group to small-and-medium group, from manufacturing to service sector, and from production workers to office and professional workers. Although low back pain is still most common, its occurrence characteristics is gradually shifted from traumatic to cumulative while musculoskeletal disorders are somewhat seemingly moved from lumbar to upper limb body part. Musculoskeletal disorders were observed to be more diverse and prevalent in epidemiological investigations or surveillance data rather in workers' compensation claims data. Musculoskeletal disorders occurrence is related to demographic factors, occupational psychosocial factors, and ergonomic risk factors at workplace for which appropriate preventive measures needed to be made accordingly.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.35-38
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• 2015

Background: Organizational changes that involve healthcare hospital departments and care services of health districts, and ongoing technological innovations and developments in society increasingly expose healthcare workers (HCWs) to work-related stress (WRS). Minimizing occupational exposure to stress requires effective risk stress assessment and management programs. Methods: The authors conducted an integrated analysis of stress sentinel indicators, an integrated analysis of objective stress factors of occupational context and content areas, and an integrated analysis between nurses and physicians of hospital departments and care services of health districts in accordance with a multidimensional validated tool developed in Italy by the National Network for the Prevention of Work-Related Psychosocial Disorders. The purpose of this retrospective observational study was to detect and analyze in different work settings the level of WRS resulting from organizational changes implemented by hospital healthcare departments and care services of health districts in a sample of their employees. Results: The findings of the study showed that hospital HCWs seemed to incur a medium level risk of WRS that was principally the result of work context factors. The implementation of improvement interventions focused on team development, safety training programs, and adopting an ethics code for HCWs, and it effectively and significantly reduced the level of WRS risk in the workplace. Conclusion: In this study HCW resulted to be exposed to occupational stress factors susceptible to reduction. Stress management programs aimed to improve work context factors associated with occupational stress are required to minimize the impact of WRS on workers.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.11-26
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• 2008

본 연구는 행정공무원을 대상으로 이들의 사회심리적 스트레스 및 피로수준을 파악하며, 이에 관여하는 제 특성을 알아보고자 대전광역시에 소재하고 있는 정부 공공기관의 일반 사무직 행정공무원 1,005명을 대상으로 자료를 수집하였다. 연구에 사용한 설문지의 구성은 조사대상자의 인구사회학적 및 직업관련 특성, 건강관련행위, 업무요구도, 업무자율성, 직장의 사회적지지, A형 행동유형, 통제신념, 자기존중감, 사회심리적 스트레스 수준, 피로수준 등으로 구성하였다. 분석은 사회심리적 스트레스 및 피로수준을 종속변수로, 기타 제 변수를 독립변수로 하여 단변량 분석 및 위계적 다중 회귀분석을 실시하였다.연구 결과, 사회심리적 스트레스나 피로수준은 인구사회학적 특성이나 직급, 근무경력 등의 직업관련 특성뿐만 아니라 건강관련행위의 실천 여부, 직무요구도, 직무자율성, 직장 내에서의 사회적 지지와 같은 직무내용 및 인성(A형 행동유형, 통제신념)이나 자기 존중감 등에 의해서도 많은 영향을 받고 있음을 알 수 있다. 따라서 공무원들의 스트레스나 피로를 감소시키기기 위해서는 직무내용의 개선 및 인성관리를 위한 프로그램의 개발 및 시행이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.461-470
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of nurses' psycho-social health and social support from colleagues on patient caring ability. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used and the participants in this study were 422 nurses from 3 general hospitals. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis with the SAS 9.4 program. Results: Total mean score for psychosocial health was $3.15{\pm}0.57$, for social support from colleagues, $3.43{\pm}0.55$, and for caring ability, $4.04{\pm}0.53$. Psychosocial health, social support from colleagues, and married status were identified as significant factors influencing patient caring ability. Conclusion: Findings from this study indicate that psychosocial health and social support from colleagues are related to patient caring ability, and thus, to improve nurses' caring ability for patient and for self, it is important to create a work environment that keeps nurses healthy and promotes collaboration with colleagues.