Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of workplace spirituality in the relation between job stress and job satisfaction as well as the level of job stress, job satisfaction, and workplace spirituality of cancer survivors returning to work. A total of 126 cancer survivors who returned to work more than six months prior to the research participated in this study. Participants were recruited through snowball sampling; they were visiting the outpatient clinic at two general hospitals located in a metropolitan city and their clinical stage was stage 0 or stage 1. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0. Job stress, workplace spirituality, and job satisfaction had a negative correlation, whereas workplace spirituality and job satisfaction had a positive correlation. The Sobel test was performed to verify the significance of the mediating effect size of workplace adaptation, the results confirmed a partial mediating effect of workplace spirituality on the relation between job stress and job satisfaction (Z = –4.72, p < 0.001). This study confirmed the mediating effect of workplace spirituality in the relation between job stress and job satisfaction. A systematic program needs to be developed to enhance workplace spirituality, a spiritual approach, to relieve job stress and increase job satisfaction.
Highlights
According to 2016 data, the number of cancer patients in Korea was 1.74 million people, making up 3.4% of the total population; one person out of 29 was either currently receiving cancer treatment or a cancer survivor
The rise in the number of cancer survivors who are leading their lives while managing cancer as a chronic disease means that a long-term approach is needed by shifting from the short-term cancer patient management in terms of prolonging life to the management of the quality of life
The results showed that the effects of the mediating variable, workplace spirituality, were statistically significant when controlling for job stress, the independent variable
Summary
According to 2016 data, the number of cancer patients in Korea was 1.74 million people, making up 3.4% of the total population; one person out of 29 was either currently receiving cancer treatment or a cancer survivor. The cancer incidence in Korea was 269 out of 100,000 people, lower than the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) average of 300.3 people; the five-year relative survival rate was 70.6%, similar to or higher than that in the US (69.2%), Canada (60%), and Japan (62.1%). These outcomes are the result of the government-led cancer prevention and control policies and the advancement of cancer treatment technologies [1]. It is expected that working cancer survivors, who spend most of their time at work like many other
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