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KMID : 0384920080170010023
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2008 Volume.17 No. 1 p.23 ~ p.33
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Cognition and Attitudes toward Psychological Problems among Middle Managers in Small and Medium-sized Workplaces
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Yang Sun-Im
Yim Hyeon-Woo
Jo Sun-Jin
Ji Yu-Na
Jung Hye-Sun
Kim Bo-Kyoung
Lee Kang-Sook
Lee Won-Chul
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify attitudes of middle managers toward employees with psychological problems and to determine factors affecting their attitudes.
Methods: A questionnaire with Community Attitudes Toward Mentally Ill (CAMI) scales was administered to 161 middle managers working in small and medium-sized enterprises based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province.
Results: There are four separate subscales on the CAMI. Mean score for authoritarianism was 35.0±4.4, benevolence 23.0±4.8, social restrictiveness 32.3±4.9 and community mental health ideology 27.2±5.1. According to multiple regression analysis, middle managers with no experience of learning mental illness through mass media or higher levels of depression symptom were more authoritative and less benevolent towards employees with psychological
problems. The experience of meeting a patient with mental problem contribute to positive attitudes toward people with mental illnesses in social restrictiveness subscale and community mental health ideology subscale among CAMI.
Conclusion: This study suggests that experience of having patients with mental problems and information on psychological problems will have great influence on attitudes of middle managers toward employees with psychological problems. It might be important to help middle manager manage their depression because their depression also affects their attitudes toward employees with psychological problems.
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KEYWORD
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Workplace, Metally Ill, Depression
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