Abstract

The purpose of this study was to systematically analyze the content of 74 articles published in Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology(KJIOP) from 1988 to 1997. These articles were analyzed in terms of the demographic characteristics of authors, the research topic, the research setting, the research method, the type of participants, and the type of statistical analysis. It was found that most of authors belonged to university and very few authors belonged to industry. The research topics concentrated on two subareas of I/O psychology: organizational and consumer psychology. The topics of 35 (47%) articles were related to organizational psychology and of 21 (28%) articles were related to consumer and advertising psychology. In the research setting, the majority (47%) of studies were conducted in the industrial settings including business companies, hospital, and army. Most of (66%) studies collected data by questionnaires. Twenty-nine(39%) studies obtained data from job incumbents in the industrial settings and 27 (37%) studies used college students as participants. Although a variety of statistical analyses were used in the 74 articles, factor analysis, correlational analysis, and regression analysis were most frequently used in the survey research and analysis of variance was most frequently used in the laboratoty experiment. In the last part of this paper, research findings published in the KJIOP during a decade were summarized according to research topics. Finally future research directions and tasks in Korean I/O psychology were discussed based on the content analysis.