Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Dankook University, Cheonan 31116, Korea.
Department of Counseling Psychology, Global Cyber University, Seoul 06022, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 19;19(3):1100. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031100.
The goal of the present study is to examine the psychology of working framework/theory with a sample of Korean workers. This study examined the structural model of sociocultural factors (i.e., economic constraints and social marginalization), psychological variables (i.e., work volition and career adaptability), and outcomes of decent work based on the psychology of working framework. This study assumed that decent work helps all workers attain a sense of self-respect, dignity, experience freedom and security in the work environment and provides an opportunity for workers to contribute to society. Data were collected from 420 Korean workers, with an average age of 39.13 years (SD = 9.26). We used a hypothesis model that did not assume a direct path from economic constraints and social marginalization to decent work and work volition and career adaptation to job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We also employed an alternative model that assumed all of its paths and compared the models' goodness of fit based on prior studies. Results indicated that alternative models have higher goodness of fit than hypothesis models. All path coefficients were significant except for the direct path from social marginalization to work volition and career adaptability to life satisfaction. Additionally, work volition and career adaptability mediated both the relationship between social marginalization and job satisfaction and between marginalization and life satisfaction. This study enabled the comprehensive examination of the relevance of various social environments and psychological and occupational characteristics that should be considered when exploring job or life satisfaction in the process of career counseling.
本研究旨在以韩国劳动者样本为对象，考察工作心理学理论/框架。本研究根据工作心理学框架，检验了社会文化因素（即经济约束和社会边缘化）、心理变量（即工作意愿和职业适应性）与体面工作结果的结构模型。本研究假设，体面工作帮助所有劳动者在工作环境中获得尊重感、尊严感、自由感和安全感，并为劳动者为社会做贡献提供机会。本研究共收集了 420 名韩国劳动者的数据，他们的平均年龄为 39.13 岁（SD=9.26）。我们使用了一个不假设经济约束和社会边缘化与体面工作、工作意愿和职业适应性与工作满意度和生活满意度之间存在直接路径的假设模型，以及一个假设所有路径的替代模型，并根据先前的研究比较了这些模型的拟合优度。结果表明，替代模型的拟合优度高于假设模型。除了社会边缘化与工作意愿和职业适应性与生活满意度之间的直接路径外，所有路径系数均显著。此外，工作意愿和职业适应性在社会边缘化与工作满意度之间以及边缘化与生活满意度之间起到了中介作用。本研究使我们能够全面考察在职业咨询过程中探索工作或生活满意度时应考虑的各种社会环境以及心理和职业特征的相关性。
