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Occupational stress and job satisfaction: a comparative study of health visitors, district nurses and community psychiatric nurses
Author(s) -
Snelgrove
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2834.1998.00055.x
Subject(s) - general health questionnaire , job satisfaction , occupational stress , psychology , clinical psychology , job stress , medicine , mental health , psychiatry , social psychology
Aim This study examines self‐reported stress and job satisfaction of health visitors Method Stress levels were assessed using The General Health Questionnaire—12. Sources of stress and satisfaction were measured by a 47 item questionnaire compiled by the author. The analysis of data included analysis of variance, Pearson product moment correlation, factor analysis. Findings The results showed that levels of stress were a function of occupation with significant variation between groups. Health visitors yielded the highest stress scores and lowest job satisfaction scores. Sources of stress correlated significantly and positively with GHQ scores. Factor analysis identified four main factors concerned with sources of stress: emotional involvement, unpredictable events at work, change and instability at work, work content. Job satisfaction scores correlated significantly and negatively with GHQ scores; indications were that all three groups were dissatisfied with supervisory relationships. Conclusions Recommendations include more creative and supportive supervisory relationships, such as clinical supervision.