The Effects of Korea Coast Guard officers’Self-efficacy and Resilience on Organization Commitment
Authors:   Form of Public Safety and Culture, Ryu Yong Hyun , Jung Jae Hoon , Park Hee Kyun 
Published: February 2024

Korea Coast Guard officers perform diverse and dangerous tasks in the special environment of the ocean. In order for members to successfully perform their duties in this environment to achieve the organization's purpose of protecting maritime sovereignty and establishing maritime safety and public safety, Korea Coast Guard should deal with organizational commitment, which is considered an important variable representing organizational effectiveness, positively affecting the performance of the organization, such as preventing turnover, absenteeism, and job burnout in organizational management. Accordingly, this study was conducted with the purpose of exploring and verifying the factors influencing the organizational commitment of Korea Coast Guard officers.
To achieve the purpose of the study, the study was conducted in the following manner. First, a research model and hypothesis were established through a review of previous research. Specifically, ‘self-efficacy’, which is the belief that an individual will overcome difficulties and challenging tasks, and ‘resilience’, which is the power to withstand stressful or high-risk situations, were set as independent variables, and organizational commitment was set as the dependent variable. Second, for empirical research, survey data verified at home and abroad were reorganized to suit the purpose of the study. The survey questions related to the research problem were structured on a Likert 5-point scale, and the survey questions related to socio-demographic characteristics used nominal, interval, and ratio scales. Third, a survey was conducted using all Korea Coast Guard officers as the population as of October 1, 2022. To ensure representativeness of the sample, The survey was conducted using proportional allocation sampling that comprehensively considered age, gender, class, and affiliation and 957 response sheets were used for analysis. Fourth, statistical analysis was performed to verify the research model. It was confirmed that the main variables could be used as continuous variables through normality review, and SPSS 27.0 was used to perform frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis on the variables.
As a result of the analysis, it was found that self-efficacy (β=.351***) and positivity (β=.182***), a sub-factor of resilience, had a statistically significant positive (+) effect on organizational commitment in the integrated model. However, it was found that self-regulation ability and interpersonal ability, other sub-factors of resilience, do not explain organizational commitment well. In addition, as a result of confirming the relative influence of variables, self-efficacy was found to best explain organizational commitment (10.8%), followed by positivity to organizational commitment at 2.3%.
Korea Coast Guard, which must ensure the effectiveness of organizational operations with limited resources and budget, should pay attention to self-efficacy and positivity and prepare policies to improve them in order to improve organizational commitment. To this end, the level of self-efficacy and positivity must be continuously measured and managed when constructing health-related cohort data of Korea Coast Guard officers, and it is also proposed to provide psychological support, regular education, and appropriate welfare program support to improve this.