Abstract
The purposes of the present study were to examine: a) the most relevant sources of workplace pressure for nurses; b) gender and age differences in occupational stressors; c) which combination of sources of stress, ways of coping, Type A style and locus of control was the best predictor of job satisfaction and both physical and mental health; Data were collected amongst 976 nurses employed in seven public hospital in Northern Italy, who completed the Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI). Results suggested that turnover and amount of work were the most relevant sources of stress. Perceived stressors were higher for female who felt themselves less healthy than their male colleagues, which used non-working time to disperse stress. Statistical analysis produced significant differences in perceived occupational stressors among age ranges. Multivariate analysis for total sample revealed organizational factors and relationships with people the best predictors of job satisfaction and both physical and mental health, respectively. Comparisons with O.S.I. normative Italian data showed several differences in perceived sources of pressure and occupational stress outcomes. Implications of the findings and limitations of the study are discussed in terms of possible targets for action aimed to enhancing quality of the work environment relationships and nurse satisfaction.
Highlights
Given the nursing shortage that exists around the world, there has been a great deal of interest in how nurses content with stressors that exist within their professional role
In attempt to better understand what workplace stressors, coping mechanisms and indiv idual characteristics contribute to nurses’ well-being and job satisfaction, this study focuses on four research questions and proposes specific hypotheses designed to explore these issues
One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA ) was explores subjects’ adoption of various info rmal and formal used to investigate the effect of age on perception of support network; “Task strategies” (CP) loo ks at how workp lace stressors, ways of coping, cognitive-behavioral individual organize their work into manageable chunks and characteristics, job satisfaction and both mental and physical forward planning, like a kind of problem solving; “Logic” health
Summary
Given the nursing shortage that exists around the world, there has been a great deal of interest in how nurses content with stressors that exist within their professional role. Another relevant resource related to job satisfaction/ dissatisfaction is perceived organizational support[27] This med iating variable has influence in stress process affecting nurses’ well-being : the frequency of stressful conditions, the lack of social support from peers and the psychosocial workp lace environ ment are the principal relevant contributors to psychosomatic health co mplaints in nurses [31]. Th is model incorporates the effects of personal characteristics (e.g. personality type, gender, cognitive styles and coping strategies) and perceived sources of pressure on an individual’s response to occupational stress elements and This perspective considers occupational stress to be based on an individual’s negative perceptions of the workp lace context and the ability to deal with them. Locus of control and social support, the combination of independent variables that best predicts job satisfaction and both mental and physical health in nurses? hypothesis three states that this combination would account for more variance in predicting strain when both type of variables are regressed separately on strains, and that this greater variance accounted for would occur for all three variab les
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