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Job leaving intentions and occupation‐related beliefs amongst preregistered dental nurses in S cotland: the mediating role of work engagement and personal accomplishment
Author(s) -
Forbes Gillian,
Freeman Ruth,
McCombes Wendy,
Humphris Gerry
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/cdoe.12042
Subject(s) - work engagement , burnout , resource (disambiguation) , scale (ratio) , job attitude , work (physics) , medicine , social psychology , psychology , job satisfaction , applied psychology , job performance , clinical psychology , mechanical engineering , computer network , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering
Objectives To identify the job resource beliefs of preregistration dental nurses and subsequently investigate their relationship with work engagement, personal accomplishment and intention to leave amongst this occupational group in Scotland. Methods A cross‐sectional survey design was used. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Personal accomplishment (a subscale of Maslach Burnout Inventory) and author‐developed questions for job resource beliefs and intention to leave were the measuring instruments used. Results Two hundred and thirty‐one dental nurses participated (82% response rate). Mean age was 25 and mean job tenure was 17.5 months. The job resource belief most valued was ‘good working relationship’. A multiple mediated path analytical model was explored. Work engagement adjusted for job resource beliefs was very strongly negatively associated with intention to leave (−0.93). There was an indirect relationship between job resource beliefs and intention to leave (−0.28) mediated via work engagement and personal accomplishment. Conclusions Dental nurses under training held job resource beliefs about their profession that were associated with work engagement, personal accomplishment and their stability of remaining in the job.