Factors affecting the life satisfaction of injured workers according to the type of return to work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13144607 |
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| Authors | Ja Young Kim (0000-0002-8538-9179, Sungkyunkwan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-113 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2994-9769 • E-ISSN: 2165-0993 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02185385.2023.2241856 |
| OpenAlex | W4385459994 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This study aimed to investigate the demographic, industrial and health-related, economic, and psycho-emotional factors that affect the life satisfaction of injured workers, and compare them according to the type of return to work. Regression analysis was used to analyse data on 2,025 injured workers. Marital status (B = .967, p < .001), disability grade (B = -.129, p < .01), health status (B = 1.287, p < .001), socioeconomic status (B = 1.977, p < .001), ownership status (B = .585, p < .05), self-esteem (B = .246, p < .001), and self-efficacy (B = .049, p < .01) significantly affected the life satisfaction of injured workers who returned to their original workplace; and marital status (B = .991, p < .001), performance ability (B = .224, p < .001), health status (B = 1.066, p < .001), socioeconomic status (B = 2.025, p < .001), ownership status (B = .589, p < .01), self-esteem (B = .295, p < .001), and self-efficacy (B = .053, p < .001) significantly affected the life satisfaction of injured workers re-employed at other workplaces; ownership status (B = 1.853, p < .01) significantly affected the life satisfaction of injured workers who is self-employed. Implications are discussed.KEYWORDS: life satisfactionreturn to workthe type of return to workinjured workerSouth Korea Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJa Young KimJa Young Kim is a doctoral graduate at Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Social Welfare in South Korea. Her research interests are labor market policy of people with disabilities, mental health, people with developmental disabilities
Affect (linguistics · Environmental health · Job satisfaction · Life satisfaction · Marital status · Mental health · Population · Psychiatry · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Demography · Medicine · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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