중년기 직장여성들이 지각하는 스트레스와 갱년기 증상과 관계 = The Relationship between Perceived Stress and Climacteric Symptoms of Middle-Aged Career Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study conducts the questionnaire with 350 working women between 40 and 64 years old at J Hospital in Gwangju Metropolitan City in order to examine the relationship between the degree of stress of middle-aged working women and their climacteric symptoms for the period from Sep. 1 to 30, 2002. Research tools include 9 items of general characteristics of middle-aged working women, 6 items of job-related characteristics and 11 items of health-related characteristics. Stress measuring tool is complemented by Park Sun-Young's stress measuring tool (1999). The reliability of this study is Cronbach's and for measuring climacteric symptoms, it uses 19 items from the tool developed by the Research Team of Ilyang Pharmacy (1999) which are necessary for this study and its reliability is Cronbach's. Collected data use SPSS program, general characteristics of health and job are measured by real number and percentage and their relationship with other variables are analyzed by ANOVA. The correlations between stress degree of the subjects and their climacteric symptoms are analyzed by Pearson Correlation Coefficient.
◆ The results of this study are as follows:
1. As a result of analyzing the psychological stress according to the general characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in age, monthly income, livelihood cost, marital status, age of marriage, the number of children and children's education (p<0.05). It is found that the higher their age is, the higher their livelihood cost is, and the lower the education and the age of marriage are and the larger the number of their children, the higher the mental stress is.
2. As a result of analyzing the mental stress according to job-related characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in the duration of employment and rank (p<0.05) and it is found that the larger the duration of service is and the higher their ranks are, the higher the mental stress they had is.
3. As a result of analyzing the mental stress according to health-related characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in the kind of daily exercise items, weekly mean frequency of exercise, regular eating, irregular eating and current menstruation cycle (p<0.05). When the subjects don't have regular meals and they have not menstruation, the higher the stress they had is.
4. As a result of analyzing the physical stress according to general characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in age, education, livelihood cost, age of marriage, the number of children and children's education (p<0.05) and when they have low educational background and married earlier, they had more stresses.
5. As a result of analyzing the physical stress according to job-related characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in their job and rank (p<0.05). It is found that when the duration of work is shorter, working department is public health and they are in the position of chief, the stress they had is higher.
6. As a result of analyzing the physical stress according to the health-related characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in weekly mean frequency, sleeping hours, sufficient sleeping hours, regular eating, irregular eating and current menstruation cycle (p<0.05). When sleeping is not sufficient and the menstruation cycle is irregular, they have higher stress.
7. As a result of analyzing the climacteric symptoms according to the general characteristics of the subjects, there are significant differences in age, religion, education, monthly income and age of marriage (p<0.05) and it is found that whey they are older, have low education and are divorced, they have higher stress.
8. As a result of analyzing the climacteric symptoms according to job-related characteristics of the subjects, there is no significant difference in job (p<0.05). When they have shorter duration of service, they have higher climacteric symptoms.
9. As a result of analyzing the climacteric symptoms according to health-related characteristics of the subjects, there are significant difference in kinds of daily exercises, sleeping hours, sufficient sleeping, regular eating, irregular eating and current menstruation cycle (p<0.05). When they have insufficient sleeping, irregular eating and don't have breakfast, they have higher climacteric symptoms.
To sum up the above results, the middle-aged working women who have higher mental stress experienced high physical stress and those who have high mental and physical stress had high climacteric symptoms. Therefore, they must concentrate on self-control to overcome their climacteric symptoms and related employees must utilize intervention which can reduce the stress.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
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• 제1장 서론 = 1
• 제2장 문헌고찰 = 3
• 제1절 중년여성 = 3
• 제2절 스트레스 = 4
• 제3절 갱년기 증상 = 5
• 제3장 연구방법 = 7
• 제1절 연구대상 = 7
• 제2절 연구도구 = 7
• 제3절 자료처리 및 분석방법 = 8
• 제4장 연구결과 = 9
• 제1절 대상자의 특성 = 9
• 1. 일반적 특성 = 9
• 2. 직장관련 특성 = 11
• 3. 건강관련 특성 = 13
• 제2절 대상자의 특성에 따른 스트레스 및 갱년기 증상정도 = 15
• 1. 심리적 스트레스 = 15
• 가. 일반적 특성 = 15
• 나. 직장관련 특성 = 17
• 다. 건강관련 특성 = 19
• 2. 신체적인 스트레스 = 21
• 가. 일반적인 특성 = 21
• 나. 직장관련 특성 = 23
• 다. 건강관련 특성 = 25
• 3. 갱년기 증상 = 27
• 가. 일반적인 특성 = 27
• 나. 직장관련 특성 = 30
• 다. 건강관련 특성 = 32
• 제3절 대상자의 스트레스와 갱년기 증상과의 상관관계 = 34
• 제5장 논의 = 35
• 제6장 결론 = 37
• 참고문헌 = 39
• 부록1 = 42
• 부록2 = 48