The Impacts of Psychosocial Work Conditions on Self-rated Health among Korean Workers

Choi, Eunsuk; Jeon, Gyeong-Suk

doi:10.5807/kjohn.2016.25.4.300

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“…In total, 23% of the participants rated their health as poor. This finding is similar to the results (24.1%) of a previous survey conducted in 2018 (15), and it did not demonstrate a considerable difference from the poor SRH (23.3%) of native Korean wage workers in a previous survey (n = 21,476) (25). Numerous studies have reported that migrant workers have lower health statuses than the native population (26).…”

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Factors associated with self-rated health among immigrant workers in South Korea: Analyzing the results of the 2020 survey on immigrants' living conditions and labor force

Kang

Hwang

Kim

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Front. Public Health

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Immigrants' health is an emerging public health issue worldwide. This study aimed to measure immigrant workers' self-rated health and identify the factors affecting it. Data were obtained from the nationwide 2020 Survey on Immigrants' Living Conditions and Labor Force in Korea. The data from 14,277 economically active immigrants who participated in the study were analyzed. Self-rated health was measured using one question and divided into dichotomized categories (good and poor). Multivariate logistic regression with a weighted sampling method was used to investigate associated factors, namely, individual, social, and living and working environment variables, and to evaluate the interaction effects with gender. Overall, 23.0% of the participants showed poor self-rated health. The odds ratios for poor self-rated health were high in participants who reported unmet healthcare needs (OR = 3.07, 95% confidence interval: 3.00–3.13) compared to those who reported other factors, followed by moderate job satisfaction (OR = 2.23, 95% confidence interval: 2.20–2.26) and unsatisfied residential environment satisfaction (OR = 1.80, 95% confidence interval: 1.74–1.86). Significant associations were found between self-rated health and most variables, including the interaction test (gender × residential environment satisfaction, education level, working hours, and length of residence). To enhance immigrants' health status, the Korean government must develop strategies to increase their access to healthcare services and minimize unmet healthcare needs. In addition, working conditions must be improved, specifically regarding long working hours and discrimination; furthermore, immigrants' living environments should be considered.

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Factors associated with self-rated health among immigrant workers in South Korea: Analyzing the results of the 2020 survey on immigrants' living conditions and labor force

Kang

Hwang

Kim

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…It is often considered natural for emotional laborers to be exposed to workplace violence in the Korean society [12], so it is necessary to examine the health impact of both factors together. Thus, in contrast to most previous studies that only utilized data from a single year [20,21], this study utilized data about workers' individual factors, working conditions, and psychosocial work environment from the third and fourth Korean Working Conditions Surveys (KWCSs) to investigate the impact of emotional labor and workplace violence.…”

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What Are the Experiences of Emotional Labor and Workplace Violence that Are More Harmful to Health in Korean Workforce?

Hwang

Yang

Kim

2020

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(1) Background: This study aims to investigate the impact of emotional labor and workplace violence on sleep disturbance, depression, and health status in workers. (2) Methods: Data from 34,742 participants of the 2011–2014 Korean Working Conditions Survey were included in this study. We compared the incidence of sleep disturbance, depression, and health status according to emotional labor and workplace violence and used logistic regression to analyze factors that affect health status. (3) Results: Emotional laborers were more likely to experience sleep disturbance, depression and anxiety, and muscle pain. Workers who have experienced workplace violence were more likely to experience depression and anxiety, abdominal pain, and sleep disturbance. (4) Conclusion: Emotional labor and workplace violence have a grave impact on physical and mental health, with particularly greater effects on mental health. In addition, workplace violence has a greater health impact than emotional labor. The findings of this study suggest the need to implement programs that stabilize and heal workers who have experienced emotional labor and to enforce regulations and policies to protect workers from verbal and physical abuse.

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“…Subjective health impact and working environment satisfaction were also found to be factors affecting work-related health problems. Subjective health status is an indicator of the overall health level [20], and reliability has been secured through many studies and is used for health evaluation [21]. The finding that the probability of experiencing workrelated health problems is twice as high in the case of negative impacts suggests the need to further study factors affecting the subjective health impact in the electronics industry.…”

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A Study on the Relationship between Work-Related Health Problems and the Working Conditions of Electronics Industry Workers in South Korea

Won,

Choi,

Kim

2024

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Background: The electronics industry has characteristics, such as the continuous occurrence of new hazards and risk factors due to rapid technological changes, the occurrence of safety and health blind spots due to the outsourcing of work, trade secrets, and a lack of information, so research is needed from a safety and health perspective. This study sought to determine the relationship between work-related health problems and the working conditions of electronics industry workers. Methods: The study subjects were 3354 workers in the electronics industry from the raw data of the 4th to 6th Korean Working Condition Survey (KWCS). The variables were divided into general, occupational, and working environment characteristics, and a logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between work-related health problems and working conditions. Results: Among the general and occupational characteristics, gender, education, night work, and working time appropriateness were analyzed as effect factors. In terms of working environment characteristics, physical work risk, musculoskeletal work risk, possibility of risk to work, subjective health impact, and working environment satisfaction were found to have effects on work-related health problems. Conclusions: The results of this study are meaningful in that they identified the effect factors of work-related health problems in the working conditions of workers in the electronics industry, where prior studies are lacking. Therefore, improvements, such as the management of night workers, appropriate working time, reduction in exposure to work risk factors, and improvement in working environment satisfaction, appear to be necessary.

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The Impacts of Psychosocial Work Conditions on Self-rated Health among Korean Workers

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Factors associated with self-rated health among immigrant workers in South Korea: Analyzing the results of the 2020 survey on immigrants' living conditions and labor force

Factors associated with self-rated health among immigrant workers in South Korea: Analyzing the results of the 2020 survey on immigrants' living conditions and labor force

What Are the Experiences of Emotional Labor and Workplace Violence that Are More Harmful to Health in Korean Workforce?

A Study on the Relationship between Work-Related Health Problems and the Working Conditions of Electronics Industry Workers in South Korea

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