사회복지사의 직장 폭력 피해 유형과 도움요청 행위에 따른 우울 수준 비교 연구 : 직장 내 괴롭힘과 클라이언트 폭력을 중심으로

This study aims to provide a basis for interventions to restore social workers' mental health by examining the moderating effect of help-seeking behavior on the relationship between workplace violence victimization, including workplace bullying and client victimization (CT victimization), and depression. For this purpose, data from the 2022 Social Worker Statistics Yearbook collected by the Korean Association of Social Worker were used to analyze a total of 2,209 individuals who experienced workplace victimization. The main findings are as follows. First, the latent class analysis (LCA) revealed the following types of victimization: 'Predominantly CT violence (40.9%),' 'Poly-victimization Type 1(11.6%),' 'Poly-victimization Type 2 (37.6%),' and 'Predominantly workplace bullying (10.0%). Second, the rate of help-seeking from social workers was 28.4%. Third, interaction effects between LCA groups and help-seeking behavior were associated with lower depression. However, the effect was not significant only for the 'Predominantly workplace bullying'. Based on these results, policy recommendations were made to eradicate workplace violence among social workers and practical recommendations were made for the application of metacognitive therapy for depression recovery.