Abstract
Occupational stress suffered by care workers is supposed to be related with work performances and turnover rates of care facilities, which is highly significant for the development of nursing care industry. Through a comparative analysis of occupational stress suffered by long-term care workers in Japan and China, the present study attempted to discover the kinds of job-related stress care workers tended to have and what the principal underlying factors resulting in high levels of stress may be in each country. Data were collected by a questionnaire survey using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ) from 3 facilities in China and 3 facilities in Japan, and then the obtained data were analyzed by cutoffpoint method and k-clustering method to discover the difference of stress suffered by nursing care workers in the two countries. Besides, discriminant analyses were also used to find out how stress may differ by country, gender, working night shift or not. According to the results, the occupational stress suffered by Chinese respondents was averagely lower than Japanese respondents, and the occupational stress is different for workers with different gender and workers working with night shift or not. Generally, the present study discovered the difference of occupational stress suffered by different crowds working in Japanese and Chinese long-term care facilities using the method of cutoffpoint method, k-clustering method, and discriminant analysis method. Besides, key related factors are identified for different crowds of respondents,and corresponding suggestions are presented for improving occupational stress management.
