The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the job stress of public social workers on their
burnout and the moderating effects of their job-stress coping style on the relationship between job stress
and burnout. For above, a survey was conducted targeting 130 social service officials of city of Gimhae,
Gyeongsangnam-do out of total 146 social service officials excluding 16 officials who have taken a leave of
absence. The collected data were analyzed by a statistical package SPSS WIN 21.0, and frequency analysis,
t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were utilized. The findings of the
study were as follows: First, as a result of analyzing the impact of the job stress of the public social
workers on their burnout, job stress exercised a statistically significant influence on burnout. Second, four
variables were selected as the moderating variables, and burnout was under the statistically significant
influence of emotion-relieved coping among the four variables. Third, whether the job-stress coping styles
of the public social workers produced any moderating effects when their job stress affected burnout was
analyzed. As a result, interaction between job stress and social support seeking had a statistically significant
impact on burnout, and social support seeking produced moderating effects. The above-mentioned findings
illustrated that among the job-stress coping styles social support seeking served to decrease burnout.
Therefore self- management education and appropriate related support should be provided for these public
social workers to manage themselves, and they should be allowed to have a sufficient chance to boost their
bond with supervisors and colleagues.