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Leisure Factors Predicting the Happiness of Self-Employed Workers in South Korea.

ABSTRACT: South Korea's employment status is characterized by a high rate of self-employment and many small-scale self-employed businesses with no employees. This study explored leisure factors relating to self-employed individuals' subjective happiness based on data from the 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey. The extracted data (N = 2343) were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Kendall's τb coefficient, Eta correlation coefficient, phi coefficient, and Cramer's V. And a three-step hierarchical regression analysis was performed to identify multidimensional variables that predict happiness more effectively. In Model 3, which additionally inserted positive and intrinsic factors into Model 2, the explanatory power was significantly increased. The predictors of subjective happiness among self-employed people identified in the final regression model were high economic status (β = 0.05), perceived health status (β = 0.32), financial constraints (β = -0.09), leisure recognition (β = 0.20), and work-life balance (leisure-oriented β = 0.09; work-oriented β = -0.13). This study's findings will contribute to the establishment of basic data, to prepare empirical measures to improve self-employed individuals' quality of life.

SUBMITTER: Park KH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8470773 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Leisure Factors Predicting the Happiness of Self-Employed Workers in South Korea.

Park Kwang-Hi KH Kim Hyunlye H Park Suin S

International journal of environmental research and public health 20210918 18

South Korea's employment status is characterized by a high rate of self-employment and many small-scale self-employed businesses with no employees. This study explored leisure factors relating to self-employed individuals' subjective happiness based on data from the 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey. The extracted data (N = 2343) were analyzed using descriptive statistics, <i>t</i>-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Kendall's τ<sub>b</sub> coefficient, Eta correlation coefficien ...[more]

PMID: 34574775

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Project description:BackgroundThe aim of this study was to examine the pattern of social inequality in self-rated health among the employed using the Wright's social class location indicator, and to assess the roles of material, behavioral, psychosocial, and workplace environmental factors as mediating factors in explaining the social class inequality in self-rated health in South Korea.MethodsThis study used data from the 4th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2009. Study subjects included the employed population of 4392 men and 3309 women aged 19-64 years. Subjects were classified into twelve social class positions based on the Wright's social class map. The health outcome was self-rated health. Material, psychosocial, behavioral, and workplace environmental factors were considered as potential mediators in explaining social class health inequality. We calculated prevalence ratios of poor self-rated health according to social class, adjusted for age and mediating factors using Poisson regression models.ResultsNonskilled workers and petty bourgeoisie reported worse self-rated health than other social classes among men. The age-adjusted prevalence of petty bourgeoisie and nonskilled workers were about four-fold greater than that of managers. Expert supervisors in the contradictory class location had a greater prevalence of poor self-rated health than experts in men. In women, the prevalence of poor self-rated health was greater in most social classes than their male counterparts, while the differences among social classes within women were not statistically significant. Workplace environmental factors explained the social class inequality by from 24 to 31% in nonskilled and skilled workers and nonskilled supervisors, respectively, and material factors showed an explanatory ability of about 8% for both nonskilled workers and petty bourgeoisie in men.ConclusionsWe showed the inequality in self-rated health according to the Wright's social class in an industrialized Asian country. Policy efforts to improve workplace environments in nonskilled and skilled workers and nonskilled supervisors would have a moderate effect on reducing the magnitude of social class inequality in self-rated health. Furthermore, the means to improve power relations in the workplace should be devised to further reduce the social class inequalities in health.

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Leisure Factors Predicting the Happiness of Self-Employed Workers in South Korea.

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