A Preliminary Study on the Stress Perception and Ways to Cope with Stress for Seafarers

Seo, Young-Seung; Kim, Jae-Ho

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2005;29(1):35-42.
Published online February 28, 2005.

선원들의 스트레스 인지와 그 대처방법에 관한 기초 연구

서영승, 김재호

A Preliminary Study on the Stress Perception and Ways to Cope with Stress for Seafarers

Young-Seung Seo, Jae-Ho Kim

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the extent of seafarers’ perception on their stress and ways to cope with the stress and providing fundamental data for establishing on the stress management of seafarers. In this paper 428 seafarers, who were in the fire－fighting and survival technique training course in Korea Institute of Maritime and fisheries Technology, were sampled and asked to fill out two kinds of questionnaire. One is a questionnaire on seafarers’ stress perception and the other is that on the measure of their coping with stress. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA by SPSS 10.1 package. The results of this study are as follow. 1) There were significant differences of stress perception in navigation area, marital status, amount of smoking, frequency of drinking, exercise, sleep pattern, sleeping hours, leisure time, and job satisfaction. 2) There were significant differences of method coping with stress in current position, navigation area, age, ship career, level of education, marital status, yearly income, frequency of drinking, amount of drinking, exercise, sleep pattern, and job satisfaction. 3) The relation between stress perception and ways of coping with stress showed that the group with higher stress perception tended to use emotion-focused coping style and desirable thinking.

Key Words: Seafarer;Perception of stress;Method coping with stress