Conditions of Workplace Violence Experience among Workers in the Distribution Industry

Souk Young Kim; Soon-Nyung Yun

doi:10.12799/jkachn.2012.23.2.212

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Kim and Yun: Conditions of Workplace Violence Experience among Workers in the Distribution Industry

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2012; 23(2): 212-221.

Published online: 30 June 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2012.23.2.212

Conditions of Workplace Violence Experience among Workers in the Distribution Industry

Souk Young Kim¹, Soon-Nyung Yun²

¹Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Eulji University, Daejeon, Korea.

²Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Kim, Souk Young. School of Nursing, Eulji University, 143-5 Yongdu-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon 301-832, Korea. Tel: +82-42-259-1717, Fax: +82-42-259-1709, ksy@eulji.ac.kr

Received 11 February 2012 Accepted 25 June 2012

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to explore violence experienced by workers in the distribution industry.

Methods

The research subjects were 236 workers from 2 department stores and 1 large scale discount store located in Daejeon City, Korea. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, χ²-test, and logistic regression analysis.

Results

72.9% of the research subjects experienced verbal violence, and 9.3% of the respondents experienced physical violence during last year. 17.8% of the respondents reported that they had experience of sexual harassment at their workplaces. The variables which affected verbal violence included working departments and stress level, whereas the variable that affected physical violence was educational level of workers. The variables that affected experience of sexual harassment turned out to be gender as well as the duration of work at the current workplaces.

Conclusion

The findings from this research revealed that many of the workers engaged in the distribution industry were exposed to workplace violence. For the reduction of risk of workplace violence for these workers, it is required to develop and execute programs including violence related policies and education about workplace violence.

Keywords: Workplace, Violence

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics of Research Subjects (N=236)

Table 2

Measures and Cause Analysis related with Workplace Violence (N=236)

Table 3

Violence Experience Status by Violence Type and Perpetrator (N=236)

Table 4

Experience Rate of Violence per Violence Type by General Characteristics of Research Subjects (N=236)

Exp.=experienced; MHC=miscellaneous · home appliances · children's.

Table 5

Factors Affecting Workplace Violence Experience by Violence Type (N=236)

OR=odds ratio; CI=confidence interval; MHC=miscellaneous goods · home appliances · children's.

Notes

This work was supported by BumSuk Academic Research Fund of 2009.

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