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KMID : 0904520120310010005
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Health and Medical Sociology
2012 Volume.31 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.24
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The Relation between Job Stress and Health Problem According to Working Condition
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Kim Jun-Ho
Chang Sei-Jin
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Abstract
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A growing body of literature has documented that job stress increases the risk of adverse health outcomes. This study was performed to assess the magnitude of job stress according to working condition, and to examine its impact on employees" health outcomes. Data were from the ‘2006 Korean Working Condition Survey’. A total of 6,793 waged employees who aged 20 years and over, and were working at least for one year. Job stress consists of seven domains, hazardous working environment(11 items), physical overload(5 items), work demand(5 items), lack of job control(5 items), job insecurity(1 item), insufficient reward(4 items) and emotional labor( 1 item). Seven domains of job stress were categorized into three group using the tertile(low risk group, moderate group, and high risk group). Ill health (adverse health outcome) was categorized into physical, psychological, and occupational injury during the past one year. Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association between job stress and ill health. All statistics were analyzed using the PASW (ver 18.0), a p<0.05 was considered significant.
As a result, 22.7-35.1% of total sample were the high risk group of job stress according to the working condition. The proportion of the high risk group was higher in female than in male. In logistic regression analysis, it was found that job stress was associated with physical and psychological ill health, and occupational injuries after adjustment for the demographcs, job characteristics, and health-related behaviors. In male employees, job stress is more likely to increase the risk of general ill health (OR: 1.51~2.54), physical ill health(OR: 1.56~2.57), psychological ill health(OR: 1.87~2.33), and occupational injuries(OR: 1.78~3.30).
In female, job stress is more likely to increase the risk of general ill health(OR:1.56~2.79), physical ill health(OR: 1.40~3.14), psychological ill health(OR:1.47~2.79), and occupational injuries(OR: 2.46~6.39).
This result suggests that job stress plays a pivotal role in developing ill health and occupational injuriy. Therefore, it is recommended to make an endeavor to reduce job stress and psychological burden of employees
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KEYWORD
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Job stress, Health problem, Sex, Korean Working Condition Survey
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