Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion (보건교육건강증진학회지)

Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion (한국보건교육건강증진학회)
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Fatigue Symptoms and Its Related Factors among Clerical Public Officers

사무직 공무원들의 피로수준 및 관련요인

  • Cho, Kwang-Hee (Dept. of Public Health, Graduate School of Chungnam National University) ;
  • Yang, Hye-Kyeong (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and public Health, College of Medicine Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Kwang-Hwan (Dept. of Hospital Management Gykonyang University) ;
  • Cho, Young-Chae (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and public Health, College of Medicine Chungnam National University)
  • 조광희 (충남대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 양혜경 (충남대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 김광환 (건양대학교 병원관리과) ;
  • 조영채 (충남대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

Objectives: The administrative employees of government were analyzed on their levels of fatigue symptoms to reveal the various factors related to them. Methods: The self-administered questionnaires were performed, during the period between Dec. 5th, 2005 and Jan. 31st, 2006, to 1,005 individuals in the service of general administration located in Daejeon Metropolitan City. The survey items included subjects' socio-demographic and job-related characteristics, health-related behavior, degree of job demand, job autonomy, social support in work, type A behavior pattern, locus of control, sense of self-esteem, and degree of fatigue. The study results were analyzed and the authors came to the following major findings, by univariate and multiple regression analysis with degree of fatigue dependent variables and other variables independent. Results and Conclusions: The study results indicated that the level of fatigue symptoms is so complicatedly influenced by variable factors as well as job-related characteristics such as socio-demographic characteristics, rank in work, or job career, to a greater extent, by job specifications and personality traits(type A) like whether performing health-related behavior or not, job demand, job autonomy, social support in work, or sense of self-esteem. Thus the effective strategy for stress reduction among governmental employees requires additional programs focusing on innovated job specifications and managed personality trait.

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