A Study on the Job Stress Management of Korean Maritime Pilots

Abstract

This study tries to suggest de-stressing methods for Korean maritime pilots by exploring the components of Job Stress, and investigating relationship between Job Stress and Job Satisfaction. The factor analysis to find out factors influencing Job Stress and multi-variate regression analysis to reveal the relationship between Job Stress and Job Satisfaction were used, and the sample collected by questionnaire survey consisted of 81 Korean maritime pilots. Finally, analysis results of this study provide that 1) peer-relation conflict(IC), Emotional Labour(EL), Responsibility of Decision Making and psychological job demand as variables of maritime pilots' Job Stress are represented, and 2) peer-relation conflict and Responsibility of Decision Making are negatively related with Job Satisfactions.