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KMID : 1138720150410030037
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Korean Public Health Research
2015 Volume.41 No. 3 p.37 ~ p.49
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Salutogenic Comparative Study on SOC, Health Related Quality of Life and Life-Health Satisfaction of Manufacturing Workers in Korea and Japan
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Lee Eung-Cheol
Lee Sung-Kook
Lee Won-Kee
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Abstract
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Objective: This comparative study aims to evaluate the correlation and the differences of manufacturing workers in Korea and Japan, and to compare the causal relations among SOC, health related quality of life (HR-QOL) and Life-health satisfaction by structural equation model.
Methods: Present comparative study by purposive sampling analyzed the data collected from 292 manufacturing workers in Korea and 327 in Japan with Korean or Japanese self-reporting questionnaire distributed directly.
Results: Korea had significantly higher scores in total, manageability and meaningfulness of SOC, and in total, psychological and social portion of HR-QOL than Japan. Life-health satisfaction of manufacturing workers was higher in Japan than in Korea, but did not have a significant difference between Korea and Japan. Whereas Japan has significantly higher correlation in SOC, HR-QOL and Life-health satisfaction than Korea. From the point of the structural equation model, the impact of Life-health satisfaction on HR-QOL did not have a significant difference between Korea and Japan. Meanwhile, Japan had the significantly higher impact and causality of HR-QOL on SOC than Korea.
Conclusion: Korea had significantly higher scores in SOC. This might suggest that manufacturing workers in Korea conducted better health behaviors, had better health condition and was mentally healthier than those in Japan. Korea had also significantly higher scores in HR-QOL. This might suggest that HR-QOL was influenced more by sociocultural or subjective aspect than by economic aspect. In the structural equation model, the impact of HR-QOL on SOC was stronger than that of SOC on HR-QOL in both Korea and Japan. Thus, it can be suggested that various industrial health policy for HR-QOL of workers in both Korea and Japan is needed in order to keep healthy, to improve coping ability and to promote mental health.
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KEYWORD
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salutogenesis, sense of coherence, SOC, health related quality of life, HR-QOL, life-health satisfaction, Korea-Japan comparison
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