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Association Between Job Insecurity and Perceived Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Regular Office Workers

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This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between job insecurity, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction. We compared two groups of Korean workers (N = 400) and Japanese workers (N = 805). The survey was conducted by an on-line research institute registered monitor that sent questionnaire to workers. As a result, Job insecurity differ significantly by income in Japan, and it differ significantly by length of service in Korea. Multiple regression analyses find that job insecurity relates to job satisfaction in Japan meanwhile life satisfaction relates to job insecurity in both country Japan and Korea. Given these results and trends towards increasing frequency of insecure jobs, attention needs to be paid to the work well-being of job insecurity.

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  1. Jungwon University, 85 Munmu-Ro, Goesan-Eup, Goesan-Gun, Chungbuk, 28024, South Korea

    Myunghee Park

  2. Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan

    Myunghee Park, Takumi Iwaasa & Motoki Mizuno

  3. School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan

    Motoki Mizuno

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Park, M., Iwaasa, T., Mizuno, M. (2018). Association Between Job Insecurity and Perceived Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Regular Office Workers. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_50

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