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KMID : 0614420100350010141
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Mental Health & Social Work
2010 Volume.35 No. 1 p.141 ~ p.175
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A Study on the Effects of Mental Health among Migrant Workers in Korea
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Yang Ok-Kyung
Park Hyang-Kyung
Sohn Ga-Hyun
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Abstract
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This study is an explorative study on mental health status of 187 migrant workers staying in Republic of Korea. The study aimed to see the relationship between their mental health status and other explaining variables such as acculturative stress, Korean language skills, or violence at the worksite. The data were collected nationwide in 2008 with a lengthy questionnaire. For the analysis, the scores of GSI(Global severity index), depression, and phobic anxiety of the SCL-90-R(Symptom Checklist-90-Revision) for mental health status were used. The selected explaining variables were the acculturative stress, Korean language status, life satisfaction, satisfaction with worksite, violence at the worksite, utilization of support and advocacy agencies, and socioeconomic status. Mental health status of the migrant workers was healthy: T-score of GSI was 47.70(sd=12.03), depression was 46.67(sd=10.46), and phobic anxiety was 52.86(sd=13.95). Besides, are relatively low percentage of the migrant workers fell into the category of the clinically mentally ill group with a cut-off T-score 63: 13.5% for GSI; 8% for depression; and 21.4% for phobic anxiety. The multiple regression analysis revealed that GSI showed high negative scores among those who were female, unmarried, high income earning, longer staying in Korea, experiencing higher acculturative stress, and experiencing violence. The variables like gender, length of stay, acculturative stress, and violence experience were found resulting in highly negative relationship with depression and phobic anxiety. Interestingly, for those utilizing the support and advocacy agencies showed higher scores in phobic anxiety. Such results of violence experience at worksite and utilization of support and advocacy agency on affecting the migrant workers mental health leads the discussion on implications that government should intervene to their workplace to eliminate the violence and secure their safe work environment and their human rights.
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KEYWORD
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migrant worker, mental health, depression, phobic anxiety, acculturative stress, violence at worksite
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