A Study on the Difference Analysis by Role Stress and Organizational Immersion to Caregivers

There is caregivers worker who plays an important role in helping the elderly who are unable to carry out their daily lives alone to improve their old health and stabilize their lives, such as supporting physical or household activities. The purpose of this study is to derive a plan to improve organizational immersion by lowering the role stress of caregivers and to be used as basic data for establishing management policies of elderly care facilities. A difference analysis was conducted between groups to find out the differences between the role stress and organizational immersion of caregivers according to the general characteristics of caregivers (gender, age, academic background, working period, and facility type). The statistical processing of the sample was analyzed using SPSS 23.0. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, in the analysis of gender differences, there were differences in role conflict, role ambiguity, role overload, and organizational immersion. Second, in the analysis of age differences, there were differences in role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload. Third, in the analysis of differences in academic background, there were differences in role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload. Fourth, there are no variables that show statistically significant differences in the analysis of differences in working periods. Fifth, in the analysis of differences in facility types, there were differences in role conflict and role overload.