농업인의 농작업 위험 수용도 및 관련 요인Risk-Accepting Personality and Associated Factors among Korean Farmers
- Other Titles
- Risk-Accepting Personality and Associated Factors among Korean Farmers
- Authors
- 윤지영; 최영철; 이원진; 김재영
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- 한국환경보건학회
- Keywords
- Agricultural injury; farmer; pesticide poisoning; risk accepting personality; risk perception
- Citation
- 한국환경보건학회지, v.42, no.5, pp.333 - 344
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 한국환경보건학회지
- Volume
- 42
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 333
- End Page
- 344
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/90746
- ISSN
- 1738-4087
- Abstract
- Objectives: This study aimed to examine risk-accepting personality traits and associated factors among farmers.
Methods: Data were collected from farmers aged over 40 living in Goryeong, North Gyeongsang-do Province,Korea. Study participants were enrolled in the Korean Rural Cohort study from 2011 to 2014. Surveys for therisk perception of farming were made through face-to-face interviews. Chi-square tests and logistic regressionanalysis were conducted adjusting for gender, age, marital status, and education.
Results: Several factors such as gender, age, marital status, age first worked as a farmer, duration of farming,and history of pesticide poisoning were associated with risk-accepting personality traits among farmers. Farmerswith risk-accepting personalities tend to be older, less educated, and have self-employed health insurance.
Farmers who started farming after the age of 50 are likely to be risk averse compared to farmers who startedfarming before the age of 20 (OR=0.41, 95% CI; 0.21, 0.82). Frequent spraying of pesticides was marginallyassociated with higher risk acceptance among female farmers (OR=1.61, 95% CI: 0.99, 2.64). Male farmers whohad experienced pesticide poisoning in their lifetime showed higher odds of risk-accepting personality traits(OR=2.20, 95% CI: 1.03, 4.72)Conclusion: Risk-acceptors were more likely to spray pesticides frequently and to experience more pesticidepoisoning compared to risk-averse individuals. This result suggests that farming hazards are to some degreedriven by risk-accepting personality traits. Further investigation of how risk-accepting behaviors influencefarming practices and pesticide poisoning is needed.
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