The Relationships between the Changes of Socioeconomic Status and Smoking in Employees:Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Gender
Title
The Relationships between the Changes of Socioeconomic Status and Smoking in Employees:Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Gender
Author(s)
이옥진
; 태미화
; 서지은
; 김주일
Keyword
사회경제적 지위 변화
; 흡연량
; 성별 조절효과
; Changes of Socioeconomic Status
; Smoking
; Gender Moderating Effect
Publication Year
2013-09-01
Publisher
Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs
Citation
Health and Social Welfare Review Vol.33 No.3, pp.59-85
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the associations between the changes of socioeconomic status(occupation, income, education level) and smoking in employees, with moderating effects of gender on these associations. Subjects of this study are 2,719 Employees from the Korea Welfare Panel Study 2008 and 2012 administered by Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and Seoul National University. The results of hierarchical regression analyses include; First, the change into blue-color employees is positively associated with smoking. Second, the effect of the changes into blue-color employees is modified by gender. These results show that the changes of occupation are noteworthy factors. And the statistically significancy of gender moderating effect suggested that female employees have a great potential in much more smoking than men because of the changes of occupation. We expect that these findings are useful to establish more adjustable antismoking policies to gender and the changes of occupation.