Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine whether vocational fitness to care-giving work have influence on stress coping behavior and purpose of life in care-giving workers with regular and irregular employment. Two hundred thirty four care-giving workers were asked to check (1): Vocational Readiness Test, related to measurement of vocational preference to care-giving works, (2) Stress Coping Scale and (3) Ikigai-9. We obtained the three main results. First was that the degree of purpose of current life in low vocational preference group with regular employee was lower than that with irregular employee. Second was that overall stress coping behavior score in the care-giving works with regular employee was lower than those with irregular employee. Third was that low vocational preference group with irregular employee was high in other vocational preference score, compared to regular employee. Based on these results, we proposed the On-the-Job Training in the view of the vocational fitness to care-giving works.
