Depression and Anxiety, associated factors and the impact of workplace violence on psychologi-cal disorders among Korean Workers

Abstract

Background: We have evaluated depression and anxiety and associated factors with these psychological stressful events for which almost all people around the world are prone to develop at some time period of life, each one of these two psychological prob-lems (depression and anxiety) have two different sources the first source of establishing that could be either as individuals’ own health condition or could be due working place. Purpose: The goal of this study is to understand key associated factors of depression and anxiety among Korean workers nationwide and to study whether worker’s exposure to physical violence and sexual harassment during last twelve month of the survey have correlations with workers’ depression and anxiety. Method: Data for this thesis was from fifth Korean Working Condition Survey which had been conducted in 2017. The population of the entire survey was 50,205 persons who had taken part in the survey. Relevant variables were chosen, Modification of data into subgroups was made to the variable of age of the participants. Data was analyzed with chi-square, Pearson correlation tests, and logistic regression. Data was analyzed with SPSS 26. As either anxiety or depression have many associated factors but in this study only those variables have been chosen which were statistically significant. Results: Workers who had been working older age, female gender, full time jobs and clients visit at the workplace are important factors known to have been associated factors with depression and anxiety due to workplace as well as in Korea. Conclusion: we suggest that all employers and private sectors should take care of their employees’ psychological burden, depression and anxiety bylaw.