Validation of a Path Model of Vietnamese Migrant Workers’ Occupational Stress

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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2018;29(4):404-413

Publication date (electronic) : 2018 December 12

doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2018.29.4.404

Hye Jeong Jeon ¹, Ga Eon Lee^,², JungOk Yu ³

¹Nurse, Dong-A University Hospital, Busan, Korea

²Professor, Department of Nursing, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

³Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea

Corresponding author: Lee, Ga Eon Department of Nursing, Dong-A University, 32 Daesingongwon-ro, Seo-gu, Busan 49201, Korea. Tel: +82-51-240-2885, Fax: +82-51-240-2920, E-mail: gelee@dau.ac.kr

Received 2018 March 28; Revised 2018 September 18; Accepted 2018 September 28.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to construct and verify a path model for the influencing factors on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers in Korea.

Methods

Participants were 193 Vietnamese migrant workers recruited from Foreign Workers Support Centers. Data were collected by a self-administered survey with copies of a Questionnaire written in Vietnamese. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients and path analysis using SPSS/WIN 23.0 and Amos 20.0 program.

Results

Length of residence, homeland friends’ and Korean colleagues’supports, and acculturation have been found to have significant direct effects on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers. Meanwhile, Length of residence, homeland friends’, Korean colleagues’, and their families’ supports showed indirect effects on their occupational stress. What had the greatest direct effect on occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers was Korean colleagues’ support.

Conclusion

For reducing occupational stress of Vietnamese migrant workers, it is necessary to strengthen their Korean colleagues’ supports in work places. In addition, community organizations should take strategies to enhance homeland friends’ supports and to improve acculturation of Vietnamese migrant workers.

Keywords: Transients and migrants; Occupational stress; Acculturation; Social support

Figure 1.

Path diagram of occupational stress.

Table 1.

General Characteristics of Subjects (N=193)

Table 2.

Correlation Coefficients and Mean of Variables (N=193)

Table 3.

Parameter and Significance in Path Model (N=193)

Table 4.

Direct Effect, Indirect Effect, and Total Effect in Path Model (N=193)

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