The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of self-encouragement and self-discouragement between new employees’jobstress and psychological maladjustment. The data from 351 new employees are analyzed. And covert Korean Occupational S...
The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of self-encouragement and self-discouragement between new employees’jobstress and psychological maladjustment. The data from 351 new employees are analyzed. And covert Korean Occupational Stress Scale(KOSS), Self-Encouragement Scale, Self-Discouragement Scale and SCL-90-R are used for measurement. The data were analyzed through correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. To examine mediating effect of self-encouragement and self-discouragement between new employees’jobstress and psychological maladjustment, Baron and Kenny(1986) model was used.
The results of this study are as follows. First, jobstress showed statistically significant positive correlations with self-discouragment and psychological maladjustment. And self-encouragement showed statistically significant negative correlations with jobstess, self-discouragment and psychological maladjustment. Second, the mediating effect of self-encouragement between new employees’jobstress and psychological maladjustment revealed that self-encouragement has a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the two variables. Thrid, the mediating effect of self-discouragement between new employees’jobstress and psychological maladjustment revealed that self-discouragement has a partial mediating effect in the relationship between the two variables.
Based on these result, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed with the suggestions for the further study.