언어재활사의 회복탄력성에 관한 연구

Abstract

Resilience is the strength of the mind that is the basis for overcoming hardships and difficulties and making a psychological leap. Resilience refers to psychological factors that help people overcome stress or obstacles and create opportunities for self-growth. Resilience has been continuously researched as a psychological mechanism that can address job stress. In this study, the characteristics of resilience of speech-language pathologists were examined in order to explain the job stress of speech-language pathologists. The participants were the study were 115 speech-language pathologist sampled nationwide, and the RQT(Resilience Quotient Test)(Kwon Soo-Hyun, 2010) was filled out and distributed as an internet questionnaire, and then the collected data were analysed by descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance(ANOVA) to verify differences according to individual and institute variables. The results of the analysis are as follow. First, the average score of resilience of speech-language pathologist was the total score was 25.04 points, similar to the scores of general adults in our country. Second, among individual variables, there was a significant difference between groups in resilience scores according th gender, age, level of qualification, and educational background, but there was no difference according to marital status and career. Third, among the institute variables, there was a significant difference in the resilience score of according to the type of work and number of people in charge but showed no significant differences, working periods, position, and number of other areas of expertise. In summary, the overall level of resilience of speech-language pathologists is similar to that of the general adult. In addition, among the sub-factors, empathy was the highest, and emotional regulation and active challenge were relatively low. Through the above discussion, it was confirmed that the resilience characteristic can be used to reduce the job stress of speech-language pathologists.