Subjective fatigue feelings of a sample of 102 nurses in Seoul and 98 nurses in Los Angeles were examined during February-May 1979.
Average percent of complaints in mental symptoms and total symptoms of nurses in Los Angeles revealed higher than those of nurses in Seoul.
Applying factor analysis on 30 items of subjective symptoms of fatigue, three factors Mere extracted and interpreted. Three common factors of nurses in Seoul were implicated. The first factor, somatic autonomic nervous symptoms, reflected drowsiness and dullness. The second factor, neuro-sensory symptoms, linked the decrease of activity in the course of work. The third factor, psychogenic symptoms, showed emotional unstabilities.
The implication of three factors of nurses in Los Angeles are psychogenic symptoms for the first factor, somatic autonomic nervous symptoms for the second factor, neuro-sensory symptoms for the third factor, respectively.
These results indicated that nurses in Los Angeles are more complicated in psychological factors than nurses in Seoul have been suggested to be true. Implications of these data for different group of workers and for different environmental conditions are discussed.
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