‘[‘his study was designed to determine anxiety factors and levels of anxiety of foreign industrialworkers.
One hundred and seventy five workers were researched who were working in Guro Working Complex, Ansan City and Sungnam City Working Complex asking 60 questionnaires from Feb. 25, 1996 to April 12, 1996.
The results were as follows
1. The 30.3% of foreign workers were from Nepal, 17.7%’ from Bangladesh, 109% from SriLanka, 14. 9% from Philippines, 11% from Ghana. 80% of foreign workers were male, 77.7k were single and most of them were in the age from 25 to 31. 37.1% of foreign workers had not lived in Korea less than 12 months. 5&t~% graduated from college, 33.7% from high school, and more than half lived in a dormitory.
2. On the anxiety level related to subject workers’ general characteristics, the anxiety ieve~ from Nepal recorded the highest point 2.70 statistically showing a significant tiiffeience(p--’O.(~)O3). On the physical anxiety level, the workers from Nepal recorded a significantly low point comparing wit I- Jamaica, Burma, Vietnam and Nigeria(w~0.0l J.
3. Emotional anxiety level marked the highest on the- ork’rs hying as a tenant c:on~psming with the workers in dormitory.
4. On anxiety factors. the emotional anxiety recoded the highest, the social anxiety and the so- matic anxiety.
5. On the relation between the anxiety factor, the somatic anxiety factor had a relation with emotional, environmental, and occupational factors and on the otliet telation between the anxiety factor and emotional factor had a relation with environmental, social, cultural factors. Moreover, the environmental factrir had a relation with the cultural factor, social factor had a relation with the cultural factor, and cultural factor was re lated to the occupational factor.
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