Effects of health perception, generativity and wisdom on job competency of korean care workers

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to produce fundamental materials for nursing intervention development for care workers’ job competency enhancement by analyzing impact of care workers’ health perception, generativity and wisdom on job competency. Method: Data was collected by means of self-report questionnaire with ethical considerations from 116 care workers at two nursing homes and one care worker center in D Borough in D City, two nursing homes in J Borough and one nursing home in S Borough. The collected data was then analyzed by frequency scale, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlational coefficients and stepwise multiple regression. Results: The care workers’ health perception scored 3.86 points out of 5 points, generativity scored 2.75 points out of 4 points and wisdom scored 3.49 points out of 5 points and job competency scored 3.79 points out of 5 points. The job competency of care workers was a moderate positive correlation with health perception (r=.49, p