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KMID : 1104420210320010073
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Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
2021 Volume.32 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.85
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A Grounded Theory Approach on Correctional Officers’ Adaptation Process of Job Stress
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Jung Hyun-Ok
Kim Hee-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the adaptation process of correctional officers’ job stress.
Methods: Participants collected were fourteen officers who had experienced the adaptation process of job stress.
Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews until the point of theoretical saturation from May to August, 2017. Transcribed interview contents were analyzed using Corbin and Strauss’ grounded theory method.
Results: A total of 98 concepts, 27 subcategories, and 10 categories were identified through the open coding. As a result of axial coding based on the paradigm model, the job stress adaptation process centering phenomenon of correctional officers was revealed as ‘repeat-mark hardening’, and the core category was extracted as ‘endurance in hardening’ consisting of a three-step process: enduring, understanding prisoner management procedures, and rebuilding. The rebuilding was considered as the key phase to escape the repeat-mark hardening and the participants utilized various strategies such as finding fun elsewhere, restoring confidence, accepting values of the prison officer in this phase.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the adaptation process of correctional officers’ job stress can be a process that endurance the hardening. Therefore, it is necessary to develop systematic practical education and vocational motivation programs.
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KEYWORD
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Government official, Job stress, Adaptive behavior, Grounded theory
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