This paper surveyed occupational identities and their professionalism cognitions of self-sufficiency promotion centers' workers, who are the subject to practice a workfare, what is called a social workfare project of the 21th-century, that make a new paradigm of harmonizing a labor and a prosperity with a dynamics.
Until now there were several researches concerning cases of inspirations of self-sufficiency of inhabitants, cases of institutions and networks for self-sufficiency promotion projects, but relatively researches about reinforcement of workers' abilities and their professionalisms have been neglected. Above all, since issues on visions and identities of practical workers have not been investigated sufficiently because of obscure characters of self-sufficiency business, this paper would be so much meaningful.
So this paper examined three topics as followings; first, the difference of occupational identities of self-sufficiency promotion centers' workers according to characteristics of sociology of population; secondly, the correlations between occupational identities and matters of business; thirdly, how five subordinate variables of occupational identity (that is, application of professional institutions as standard, one's occupational consciousness, conviction to autonomy, belief in self-regulation, confidence in service) have influence on five subordinate variables of professionalism cognition (that is, systematic knowledges, social sanctions, professional authorities professional cultures, ethical codes).
For this, I surveyed workers of self-sufficiency promotion centers at Kyungnam, Ulsan, Busan, Daegu, Kyungbuk, and analyzed these data by SPSS 15.0. And I made use of several analytical techniques such as Frequency, Reliability, Correlation, ANOVA, Regression.
I could draw several conclusions from these studies. First of all, there are some differences of occupational identities among workers according to sex, age, religion, attainments in scholarship, positions, monthly incomes, lengths of one's service, careers at other institutions. This point is in accord with previous researches. But as for the specialty and the existence of license for social workers, workers not having majored this and not having license cognized their occupational identities more than ones having, which this paper made clear anew. And there were not meaningful statistical indications about the difference of occupational identities according to employment relationships. As to the difference according to matters of business, only a business for making employment showed significant statistical indications in relations to application of professional institutions as standard and belief in self-regulation among five subordinate variables of occupational identities. These conclusions are concerned with topic 1.
As for topic 2, two results were drawn from these researches. In case of the business for basic self-sufficiency promotion, there were close correlations between one's occupational consciousness and matters of business or occupational identities. So far as correlations among matters of business are concerned, the result implied that there were very highly correlations between the business for basic self-sufficiency promotion and for making employments and for supporting to get a job.
Finally this paper suggested that occupational identities of self-sufficiency promotion centers' workers had influences on their professional cognitions, which is concerned to topic 3. That is, conviction to autonomy among five subordinate variables of occupational identity had the highest explanatory power for systematic knowledges, professional authorities, ethical codes and professional cultures among five subordinate variables of professionalism cognition. Also faith in service had the highest explanatory power for social sanctions.
I expect that this paper would give more understandings about self-sufficiency promotion centers and would contribute for workers to practice their business under better conditions as well as to promote the quality of life of the low-income brackets.