Title: Nurses' vocational strain and its relation with occupational role,coping resources and personality
Abstract: Objective To assess vocational strain(VS) and its relation with occupational role,personal coping resources and personality characteristics,and to discuss the relative factors of nusers' VS in Chongqing.Methods A test was carried out with revised occupational stress inventory(OSI-R)and the sixteen personadity factor questionnaire(16-PF)for 743 nurses.Results ①The scores of VS(18.89±4.53)for nurses in Chongqing were higher than the common example(17.36±5.06).②The scores of VS were obviously different among nurses with different marital status,different grade of hospital,and whether or not only-child nurses(P0.05).The scores of VS were positively correlated with all items of occupational role(P0.01),and negatively correlated with the items of rational cognitive(RC)and social support(SS,P0.01).In personality characteristics,the scores of VS were positively correlated with sophisticate(N),emulative(E),apprehension(O) and tension(Q4,P0.01),and negatively correlated with social boldness(H),openness(Q1),self-descipline(Q3),persistence(G),sensitivity(I)and independence(Q2,P0.01).Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that the grade of hospital,the length of work,role insufficiency(RI),role ambiguity(RA),role boundary(RB),responsibility(R),physical environment(PE),recreation(RE),RC,E,Q2 and Q3 impacted the scores of VS,they could predict the nurses' VS.Conclusion Nurses' VS relates to occupational role,personal coping resources and personality characteristics.To relieve the nurses' VS,it is right proposal to offer corresponding nursing courses,clear the nurses' job responsibilities,improve individual protection consciousness,rich amateur life and train the adaptive role personality of nurse.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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