Correlations among work environment management, nurses' self-efficacy and work engagement

Abstract

Objective To investigate the hospital work environment management, nurses' self-efficacy and work engagement and to explore the correlations among them. Methods From March 2017 to March 2018, we selected 310 clinical nurses of three hospitals in Jinhua by convenience sampling. The investigation was carried out with the self-designed general information questionnaire, Chinese version of Practice Environment Scale (PES) , General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) . Correlation analysis was used to related data after being organized. In this study, 310 questionnaires were issued and 306 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective recovery rate of 98.71%. Results Among 306 nurses, the scores of PES, GSES and UWES were (95.25±12.17) , (25.58±5.13) and (52.38±8.81) respectively. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the dimension scores of PES had positive correlations with the dimension scores of self-efficacy and work engagement (P<0.05) ; nurses' self-efficacy was positively correlated with the dimension scores of work engagement (P<0.05) . Stepwise regression analysis used to explore the influence of work environment management between nurses' work engagement and self-efficacy showed that self-efficacy had a partial mediating effect between work environment and work engagement accounting for 37.64% of the total effect. Conclusions Nurses' work engagement has correlations with self-efficacy and work environment, and plays a mediating effect between them. Improving work environment management and nurses' self-efficacy can improve nurses' work engagement so as to provide the good nursing care for patients. Key words: Nurses; Work environment; Self-efficacy; Work engagement; Correlation