title: The Relationship Between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R) in Marine Officers on Board.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to investigate the relationships among job stress, job satisfaction, and mental health in marine officers.
  
  
  METHODS
  The researchers gathered data on marine officers working at a harbor in Chungcheong Province, South Korea, using a self-reported questionnaire. Mental health was measured by the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R), and general characteristics including socioeconomic factors, job stress, and job satisfaction were measured by structured questionnaires. Multiple regression analysis was performed to investigate the relationships among job stress, job satisfaction, and mental health status according to the symptom dimensions of the SCL-90-R.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the marine officers, obsessive-compulsive behavior, depression, and somatization were the most problematic symptoms. Those who reported poor health, low job satisfaction, and high job stress had a higher prevalence of psychoticism, somatization, depression, anxiety, and phobic anxiety.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An occupational health system should be introduced that would regularly check the mental health of marine officers in charge of ships and sailors, in order to help reduce their stress levels, enhance their job satisfaction, and thereby improve their mental health.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Hee
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4484-2114
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Soong-Nang
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2621-945X
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Jang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Job satisfaction; Mental health; Ships; Stress