The impact of stress, hardiness, home and work environment on illness, job satisfaction, and absenteeism in registered nurses

he purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship of personality, work and home environment, stress, and demographic variables with illness, job satisfaction, and absenteeism. It was expected that the additive effects of personality and environment would significantly explain the variance in the job stress outcomes of illness, job satisfaction, and absenteeism; this was not found. The participants completed the following instruments: the Work Environment Scale, the Nursing Job Satisfaction Scale, the Personal Views Survey (hardiness), the Comprehensive Scale of Stress Assessment: Global Inventory II, the Seriousness of Illness Rating Scale, a demographic data sheet, and an author-devised instrument measuring Satisfaction with Home Environment. Absenteeism was measured by the Lost Time Rate, a calculation of the ratio of number of hours absent compared to total number of scheduled work hours.;A canonical correlation analysis yielded three statistically significant (p...