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KMID : 0384919990080020212
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
1999 Volume.8 No. 2 p.212 ~ p.220
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Study on Level and Factors of Anxiety Affecting to Some Foreign Employees Working in Korea
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Kim Won-Sook
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Abstract
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This study was designed to determine anxiety factors and levels of anxiety of foreign industrial workers One hundred and seventy five workers were researched who were working in Gum 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 10.9% from Srilanka. 14.9% from Philippines, 1.1% from Ghana. 80% of foreign workers were male. 77.7% were single and most of then were in the age from 25 to 34. 37.1% o foreign workers had not lived in Korea less than 12 months, 58.8% graduated fro college, 33.7% from highschool, and more than half lived in a dormitory.
2. On the anxiety level related to subject workers general characteristics, the workers level from Nepal recorded the highest point 2.70 statistically showing a significant difference(P 0.0003). On the physical anxiety level, the workers from Nepal recorded a significantly low point comparing with Jamaica, Burma. Vietnam and Nigeria(P0.01).
3. Emotional anxiety level marked the highest on the workers living as a tenant comparing with the workers in dormitory.
4. On anxiety factors, the emotional anxiety recoded the highest, the social anxiety and the somatic 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 other relation between the anxiety factor and emotional factor had a relation with environmental, social, cultural factors.
Moreover, the environmental factor had a relation with the cultural factor, social factor had a relation with the cultural factor, and cultural factor was related to the occupational factor.
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KEYWORD
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Anxiety, Foreign employees, Culture
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