The Effect of Care Worker’s Perception and Level of Human Rights and Social Support on Job Stress in Elderly Long-term Care Institutions in Korea

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effect of the care worker’s perception of human rights infringement, level of human rights infringement, and social support on job stress. For doing this, we conducted a survey from July to December 2015, and a total of 284 questionnaires were used for the analysis. The main results of the study are as follows. First, the care worker's perception of human rights infringement was average of 3.66, higher than the medium. However, the level of human rights infringement was low as a whole, with verbal and emotional infringement 2.49, followed by physical threat infringement 2.11, physical violence infringement 1.91, and sexual violence infringement 1.48. Second, according to the result of examining the effect of the care-managers’ perception of human rights infringement, level of human rights infringement, and social support on job stress, sexual violence infringement had the biggest effect on the role conflict and role excessiveness in the level of human rights infringement. Also, verbal and emotional infringement and social support had the biggest effect on the role vagueness. Especially, social support was the protection factor for reducing the role vagueness. And, the result that sexual violence infringement is the major effective variable for role conflict and role excessiveness in job stress.