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The impact of team climate for innovation on well‐being and stress in elderly care
Author(s) -
DACKERT INGRID
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01079.x
Subject(s) - structural equation modeling , psychology , stress (linguistics) , nursing , well being , work (physics) , nursing management , psychological intervention , organisation climate , applied psychology , medicine , social psychology , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , psychotherapist , machine learning
dackert i . (2010) Journal of Nursing Management 18, 302–310
The impact of team climate for innovation on well‐being and stress in elderly care Aims To investigate the impact of team climate in providing support for innovation on well‐being and stress and to explore whether well‐being is a mediating variable between team climate and negative stress. Background The well‐being of the nursing staff needs to be improved in elderly care as well as the quality of the care. Team work may be a way of addressing both needs. Method A questionnaire was completed by auxiliary nurses and nurses’ aides ( n = 329) within elderly care in Sweden. Structural equation modelling was used to test the relationships among team climate, well‐being and stress. Results The perceived team climate has a significant positive correlation with well‐being and a significant negative correlation with stress reactions. The structural equation modelling suggested that well‐being is a mediating variable between team climate and stress. Conclusion A better team climate providing support for innovation may increase well‐being and decrease stress reactions among nursing staff. Implications for nursing management: Interventions that improve the team climate and provide support for innovation may increase the possibilities for growth and self‐actualization of the employees that, in turn, make them more qualified to deal with stress.