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- Occupational Stress, Coping, and Outcomes among Korean Nurses: An Integrative Review Based on the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping
- Myungji Kim, Hyunkyung Choi
- STRESS. 2025;33(3):127-135. Published online September 30, 2025
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2025.33.3.127
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Korean nurses face high levels of occupational stress due to staff shortages and work overload. This stress varies depending on each individual’s cognitive appraisal and coping strategies and affects both the quality of nursing care and the well-being of the nurses themselves. Therefore, this study is intended to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the cognitive appraisal, coping strategies, and occupational stress outcomes of Korean nurses.
Methods
This integrative review study was based on Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model of stress and coping. Literature published in Korean or English between March 1984 and July 2025 was reviewed using the RISS, KISS, DBpia, PubMed, and CINAHL databases.
Results
Fourteen studies (13 quantitative descriptive and 1 qualitative) were analyzed regarding occupational stress and coping strategies among nurses. Three key attributes were identified: a high level of occupational stress related to various factors, the use of active and passive coping strategies, and outcomes from coping with occupational stress. No study to date has specifically examined occupational stress appraisal.
Conclusions
It is important to develop strategies that help nurses actively cope with occupational stress, allowing for adaptive outcomes, rather than inefficient ones. These findings are expected to serve as foundational data for the development of occupational stress management programs. Future studies on nurses’ occupational stress will also need to include the concept of cognitive appraisal. -
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- Impact of job stress and grit on health-promoting behaviors among shift-working nurses
Hyejeong Yang, Weon-Hee Moon
Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion.2025; 42(5): 45. CrossRef
- Impact of job stress and grit on health-promoting behaviors among shift-working nurses
- An Integrative Review of Psychosocial Intervention Programs for Infertile Females
- Youjin Shin, Soo-Hyun Nam
- STRESS. 2023;31(4):158-167. Published online December 28, 2023
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2023.31.4.158
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This study aims to analyze intervention studies conducted on infertile females in South Korea and research and research the core elements comprising these studies.
Methods
The integrative review was conducted based on the guidelines of Whittmore and Knafl, and included the following steps: problem identification, literature search, data evaluation, data analysis, and presentation. Next, six domestic databases were searched using keywords such as ‘infertility’, ‘intervention’, and ‘education’ in Korean and English, and published studies were reviewed according to specific criteria and quality assessment.
Results
Among 4,109 searched papers, 6 were selected for the final data analysis. A total of six interventions were conducted in the selected articles, and each strategy was variously categorized into cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, and physical aspects. All interventions were found to be effective in promoting psychosocial health in infertile females.
Conclusions
Despite the fact that female infertility is a major public health problem in Korea, the low number of articles reveals a relative lack of psychosocial intervention studies. Therefore, it is suggested that future studies incorporate physiological endpoints into psychosocial studies, and we hope that this study will serve as a basis for developing programs for infertile females in the future.
- An Integrative Review of Facial Emotion Information Processing in Depression
- Eunui Jo, Jejoong Kim
- STRESS. 2020;28(2):41-50. Published online June 30, 2020
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2020.28.2.41
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Background This study is an integrative review of literatures of research on emotion processing in depression using facial expression stimuli.
Methods For the review, we searched domestic and international research articles over the past 20 years according to the integrative review procedure and selected the final 19 papers.
Results The results of the review revealed that depressed people, compared with those who were not depressed, had the following differences. First, they needed longer time for precise processing of emotion. Second, they managed to recognize positive emotion with high intensity while easily recognized negative emotions with low intensity. Third, they tended to overestimate the intensity of negative emotion. Fourth, they showed a negative interpretation bias to ambiguous or neutral facial expressions. Meanwhile, consistent results across the studies were not found for the variable of accuracy.
Conclusions Our results suggest that it is necessary to develop more elaborate intervention program and design more sophisticated experiment for further coherent understanding of depression.
- An Integrative Review of Life Events in Early Schizophrenia
- Jaewon Joung, Sungjae Kim
- STRESS. 2017;25(3):170-178. Published online September 30, 2017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17547/kjsr.2017.25.3.170
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Background: The purpose of this study was to review the literature to improve the understanding of life events of early schizophrenia and identify the related factors using an integrative review.
Methods: The key words, ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘life events’ were used to search peer-reviewed evidence through six electronic databases and 11 papers were selected.
Results: The factors related to the life events of the early schizophrenia were as follows 1) social isolation, lack of self-efficacy, lack of coping as antecedents 2) depression as a mediating factor 3) precipitating role of psychotic symptoms as a consequence.
Conclusions: It is difficult to identify the causal relationship between life events and psychotic symptoms because there are methodological limitations and conflicting results. In the future, it will be necessary qualitative research on life events of early schizophrenia and intervention study applying related factors identified in this study.
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Citations to this article as recorded by- The Effects of an Acceptance-Commitment Therapy Based Stress Management Program on Hospitalization Stress, Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being of Inpatients with Schizophrenia
Jae Woon Lee, Jae Hyun Ha
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2018; 48(4): 443. CrossRef
- The Effects of an Acceptance-Commitment Therapy Based Stress Management Program on Hospitalization Stress, Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being of Inpatients with Schizophrenia
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