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A Qualitative Study on the Psychological Problems of Injured Workers

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2014, v.19 no.1, pp.431-442
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2014.19.1.024


& (2014). A Qualitative Study on the Psychological Problems of Injured Workers. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 19(1), 431-442, https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2014.19.1.024

Abstract

This study aims to investigate qualitative psychological problems, which are experienced by injured workers, according to phenomenological methods. Interview data from eight injured workers, living in Seoul and the suburbs, were analyzed. Participants composed of 5 male and 3 female patients who had industrial accidents, which ages ranging from 32 to 66 years old. They received a series of recorded Schütze’s narrative interviews after obtaining their informed consents. Collected data were analyzed with Giorgi’s phenomenological analysis procedures. The analysis highlight their problems when experiencing medical treatments and the stresses on uncertainties of future life after medical treatments and convalescences due to the reality of industrial accidents. And, psychological problems were divided into 3 domains, such as emotional torments, cognitive and emotional experiences, and cognitive problems. Emotional torments were being expressed as anger, depression, and fear. Injured workers had nightmares as their cognitive and emotional experiences, where they showed potentials of suicides and regard themselves to be blamed by family members and co-workers. These results were hereby discussed for further studies and some implications are suggested for healthy psychological interventions for injured Korean workers.

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산업재해, 산재환자, 심리적 문제, 심리적 적응, industrial accident, injured worker, psychological problem, psychological adjustment

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