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Psychosocial factors and psychological well-being: a study from a nationally representative sample of Korean workers

This study was conducted to examine how each psychosocial factor on working conditions is related to a worker’s well-being. Data from the 2011 Korean Working Conditions Survey were analyzed for 33,569 employed workers aged ≥15 years. Well-being was evaluated through the WHO-5 questionnaire and varia...

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Autores principales: LEE, Bum-Joon, LAMICHHANE, Dirga Kumar, JUNG, Dal-Young, MOON, So-Hyun, KIM, Seong-Jin, KIM, Hwan-Cheol
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26726830
http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2015-0191
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author LEE, Bum-Joon
LAMICHHANE, Dirga Kumar
JUNG, Dal-Young
MOON, So-Hyun
KIM, Seong-Jin
KIM, Hwan-Cheol
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description This study was conducted to examine how each psychosocial factor on working conditions is related to a worker’s well-being. Data from the 2011 Korean Working Conditions Survey were analyzed for 33,569 employed workers aged ≥15 years. Well-being was evaluated through the WHO-5 questionnaire and variables about occupational psychosocial factors were classified into eight categories. The prevalence ratios were estimated using Poisson regression model. Overall, 44.3% of men and 57.4% of women were in a low well-being group. In a univariate analysis, most of the psychosocial factors on working conditions are significantly related with a worker’s low well-being, except for insufficient job autonomy in both genders and job insecurity for males only. After adjusting for sociodemographic and structural factors on working conditions, job dissatisfaction, lack of reward, lack of social support, violence and discrimination at work still showed a statistically significant association with a worker’s low well-being for both genders. We found that psychosocial working conditions were associated with the workers’ well-being.
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spelling pubmed-49398702016-07-12 Psychosocial factors and psychological well-being: a study from a nationally representative sample of Korean workers LEE, Bum-Joon LAMICHHANE, Dirga Kumar JUNG, Dal-Young MOON, So-Hyun KIM, Seong-Jin KIM, Hwan-Cheol Ind Health Original Article This study was conducted to examine how each psychosocial factor on working conditions is related to a worker’s well-being. Data from the 2011 Korean Working Conditions Survey were analyzed for 33,569 employed workers aged ≥15 years. Well-being was evaluated through the WHO-5 questionnaire and variables about occupational psychosocial factors were classified into eight categories. The prevalence ratios were estimated using Poisson regression model. Overall, 44.3% of men and 57.4% of women were in a low well-being group. In a univariate analysis, most of the psychosocial factors on working conditions are significantly related with a worker’s low well-being, except for insufficient job autonomy in both genders and job insecurity for males only. After adjusting for sociodemographic and structural factors on working conditions, job dissatisfaction, lack of reward, lack of social support, violence and discrimination at work still showed a statistically significant association with a worker’s low well-being for both genders. We found that psychosocial working conditions were associated with the workers’ well-being. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan 2015-12-26 2016-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4939870/ /pubmed/26726830 http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2015-0191 Text en ©2016 National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License.
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Psychosocial factors and psychological well-being: a study from a nationally representative sample of Korean workers
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26726830
http://dx.doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2015-0191
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