Professional self-concept and job satisfaction among nurses in psychiatric clinics

Abstract

Background: Nurses’ professional self and job satisfaction directly affect their professional practices. For this reason, it is important to find out about their perceptions of their professional self, the factors that affect and are affected by the professional self, and nurses’ job satisfaction. Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the professional self-concept and job satisfaction of nurses working in psychiatry clinics. Material and Methods: The universe of this descriptive and correlational study was the psychiatric nurses in Turkey and its sample comprised of 103 nurses employed in the psychiatry clinics and polyclinics of university hospitals randomly selected from provinces representing the seven geographical regions in Turkey. The data collection tools used in the study were Information Form, Professional Self Concept Scale and Nursing Job Satisfaction Scale in Nurses. Results: Psychiatric nurses have a high professional self-concept and moderate job satisfaction. There is a statistically significant positive correlation between the professional self-concept and job satisfaction of nurses. Conclusion: Professional self-concepts and job satisfaction of psychiatric nurses are affected by demographic characteristics and these two variables are related to each other.