도전적 스트레서와 방해적 스트레서가 직무소진에 미치는 영향에서 핵심자기평가의 조절효과

The level of Korean employees‘ stress is known to be highest among OECD members. As we can expect various negative consequence originated from the high level of stress, we should do best to prevent the expected negative consequence of stress. In this vein, the studies that explore the sources and effects of stress and the ways to mitigate its bad effects in Korean context is of great importance. In this vein, we explored the source of stress and its effects empirically to contribute to the practices of managing stress. To achieve these goals, we explored the sources of stress and their effects. Adding to these, we also explored the moderator of relationship to find out the way to manage stress effectively. Generally, the source of stress is called as stressor and stressor have various bad effects. One of the most representative negative effects of stressor is burnout. As the studies on stressor developed, new challenge to uncover the positive side of stressor begun. In the end, stressor is divided into two types, that is, challenge stressor reflecting positive side of stressor and hindrance stressor reflecting negative side of stressor. In this study, we investigated the effects of these two types of stressors on burnout individually. We expected that challenge stressor will decrease burnout and hindrance stressor will increase burnout on the base of theoretical background and tested them empirically Furthermore, we also investigated the effects of core self-evaluation on burnout and its moderating effects on the relationship between stressor and burnout. Core self-evaluation means the general evaluations about the core sides of themselves. The extent to which they evaluate themselves in positive way influence their ways to recognize the external environment. Namely, those with high core self-evaluation show the tendency to recognize the given objective environment more positively than those with low core self-evaluation. Because of these function of core self-evaluation in cognitive process of external environment, we can expect that core self-evaluation will have negative effects on burnout. In other words, we can expect that those with high core self-evaluation will see the given environment in more positive way and will less likely be burn-out even in the same environment than those with low core self-evaluation. Furthermore, we can expect the moderating effects of core self-evaluation on the relationship between two types of stressors and burnout. We can take stressor as a kind of environment and the level of core self-evaluation influence on the process of cognizing stressor. Namely, those with high core self-evaluation will take the same stressor less serious and will be less likely to be burnout. On the bases of these academic background, we can expect that the core self-evaluation will mitigate the impacts of stressor on burnout. For the empirical analysis, we collected data from employees belong to Korean companies by questionnaire survey and conducted hierarchical regression analysis for hypothesis test. The results showed that the negative effect of challenge stressor on burnout was not supported statistically but the positive effects of hindrance stressor on burnout was supported statistically. Next, the negative effect of core self-evaluation on burnout was supported statistically and its moderating effect on the relationship between hindrance stressor and burnout was also supported statistically. On the result, we discussed theoretical and practical implications.