The aim of this study was to investigate the primary factors affecting the group conflict between nurses and aid nurses, the level of their cognition of this conflict, and the pattern of antagonistic behavior against each other in some general hospitals.
Fifty two nurses and ninety aid nurses in 8 general hospitals randomly selected from Seoul area were involved in this study. The data were collected through self administered technique with a itemized questionaires from October 15 to November 5. 1986.
The results of this study were as follows;
1. The average age was 27.9 years old in nurse group and 24.1 years old in aid nurse group. 78.8 percent of the nurses were over 26 years old, but 72.2 percent of the aid nurses were under 25 years old. Between two groups didn´t show a significant difference in job career and length of continuous services.
2. Between two groups showed a significant difference in the cognition to their nursing acrivities difficulty (χ^2=47.82, p<0.01). 80.7 percent of the nurses answered their level of nursing activities difficulty higher than that of aid nurse. On the contary, 51.5 percent of aid nurses answered their lever of hardness was equal to the nurses´ activities, and 22.2% even estimated higher than the nurses.
3. The cognition of joint performance frequency was appeared a significant difference between two groups (χ^2=16.50, p<0.01). 67.6 percent of the nurses thought "very frequently" or "frequently", and 47.6 percent of aid nurses answered " fequently" in the cognition of joint performance.
4. In the cognition to the frequency of information interchange, 57.7 percent of the nurses and 40.0 percent of aid nurses answered "frequently." but the statistical significance of two groups was not observed.
5. A significant difference was observed between two groups in the offer and reception of assistances at the performance of duties (χ^2=16.78, p<0.01 ; χ^2=24.51, p<0.01).
6. Between two groups had a group conflict in the group identity, 72.2 percent of the aid nurses insisted on group identity, on the other hand. 84.6 percent of the nurses objected to put nurse on a par with aid nurse.
7. Most nurses tended to disapprove the aid nurses´ status-incongruity, so 94.2 percent of the nurses disapproved rising of aid nurse´s status. 94.2persent of the nurses regarded themselves as the superior to the aid nurses.
8. 76.9 percent of the nurses had a discredit to the aid nurses´ ability, on the contrary, 43.2 percent of the aid nurses had a relative strong discredit to the nurses´ ability. The attitude between two groups appeared a significant difference (χ^2=33.22, p<0.01).
9. The cognition of two groups to the "unfriendly" was conformed (χ^2=7.47, p<0.01).
10. The conflict of two groups such as inter-interference. trouble and view-oppositions were not observed.
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