비정규직 노동자의 심리적 어려움에 대한 질적 연구: 근로계약 체결 반복 경험을 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to examine the phenomenon that non-regular workers experience subjectively in the process of repeatedly signing contracts of ‘termination and renewal of contracts’ in order to maintain employment, and to derive the essence and meaning of this experience. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted with 6 non-regular workers who had repeatedly experienced the conclusion of labor contracts while working as non-regular workers, and the collected interview data were analyzed using the descriptive phenomenology research method of Giorgi (2009). As a result of the study, the experience of psychological difficulties of non-regular workers who repeatedly signed labor contracts was derived with 6 components and 14 sub-components. The six components are ‘hope torture begins’, ‘struggling in the snare of renewal contract’, ‘relative deprivation spreads through life’, ‘employment contract shapes the meaning of work’, and ‘the responsibility of the head of the family is strict’, appeared as ‘The union becomes a support and creates tomorrow’. This study seeks to expand the understanding of the psychological difficulties of non-regular workers and their awareness of job insecurity by exploring the experiences of non-regular workers repeatedly signing labor contracts, and to provide a basis for in-depth discussions on their experiences to provide a professional solution for them. It is meaningful in that it presents the implications of assistance and intervention measures.