RESUMEN
Registered nurse (RN) job satisfaction is a major predictor of intent to stay and job turnover, serious concerns to health care leaders. Predictors of job satisfaction include autonomy, control over daily practice, nurse-physician collaboration, transformational leadership, group cohesion, job stress, structural empowerment, and psychological empowerment. In the model of psychological empowerment, stress resiliency is the product of persons' interpretive styles and influences psychological empowerment. This study has evaluated the influence of stress resiliency on job stress, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and intent to stay using causal modeling. Participants are 464 RNs employed in five acute care hospitals in West Virginia. The final model has provided a very good fit to the data. Stress resiliency is a predictor of psychological empowerment, situational stress, and job satisfaction. This study provides the first evidence of the influence of stress resiliency on job stress, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and intent to stay in a sample of RNs.
Asunto(s)
Agotamiento Profesional/psicología , Intención , Satisfacción en el Trabajo , Personal de Enfermería en Hospital/psicología , Reorganización del Personal , Resiliencia Psicológica , Adulto , Análisis de Varianza , Actitud del Personal de Salud , Agotamiento Profesional/diagnóstico , Agotamiento Profesional/epidemiología , Agotamiento Profesional/prevención & control , Distribución de Chi-Cuadrado , Femenino , Humanos , Relaciones Interprofesionales , Liderazgo , Masculino , Modelos Psicológicos , Rol de la Enfermera/psicología , Investigación Metodológica en Enfermería , Personal de Enfermería en Hospital/educación , Personal de Enfermería en Hospital/organización & administración , Reorganización del Personal/estadística & datos numéricos , Poder Psicológico , Autonomía Profesional , Análisis de Regresión , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , West Virginia/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
The purpose of this predictive, nonexperimental study was to describe the influence of 3 interpretive styles of stress resiliency on phychological empowerment; psychological empowerment has been identified as a primary predictor of RN job satisfaction. Subjects were 142 nurses, randomly selected from 4 unit in 2 hospitals in a mid-Atlantic state. Measures used were Spreitzer's questionnaire for psychological empowerment (Chronbach alpha for this study = .89) and Thomas and Tymon's Stress Resiliency Profile for interpretive styles (Chronbach alpha for this study = .87, .74, and .85, for deficiency focusing, necessitating, and skill recognition, respectively). Regression analysis identified a model predictive of psychological empowerment in which 24% of the variance was explained by skill recognition and deficiency focusing components of interpretive styles, suggesting that nurses who believe they are effective and who do not imagine their own failure add to their own empowerment.