Study On The Relationship Between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction And Organizational Commitment In Clinical Nurses

Objective:To analyze clinical nurses'job stressor,job satisfaction and organizational commintment.And then,by analyzing the relationship between job stress,job satisfaction and organizational commitment on the basis of research of FuZhou clinical nurses . We presented some effective suggestion for clinical nurses management.Methods:By selecting 514 nurses working in third-first class hospitals of FuZhou as investigation sample,we used the questionnaire about data of demography, Nursing Job Stress Inventory(NJSI),short-form Minnesota Satisfaction Questio-nnaire(MSO),and Organizational Commitment Scale in the research.The statistical method included: independed samples t-test,one-way ANOVA,Pearson inter-correlation,and multiple linear regression analysis.Results:1. Clinical nurses'job stress was in the middle level.Nurses main stressor was the workload and time allocation,including too much workload,fewer number of working nurses,no time to carry psychological care,too much non-nursing work and too much written work.2. Clinical nurses'job satisfaction was in the middle level.The clinical nurses had low satisfaction with the paid based on workload,the busy degree of work,the opportunities for promotion,the current working conditions and the ways of implementing policy.3. Clinical nurses'organizational commitment was different because of the personnal-concerned items.And age,night-shift days per month,duty and the department had significant impact on organizational commitment.4. Clinical nurses'job stress was significantly negative correlated with organi- zational commitment.5. Clinical nurses'job satisfaction was significantly positive correlated with organizational commitment.Conclusion:1. It was a serious problem that the clinical nurses had too much workload and the load was heavy.2. The unsatisfaction with job was caused by failing to satisfied with both low-level needs and high-level needs.3. The stress from management and interpersonal relationship had prediction on three mains of organizational commitment.It proved that harmonious interpersonal relationship and fine work environment are the factors increasing thenurses'dependent emotion to the unit.4. External satisfaction had prediction on continuance commitment,intrinsic satisfaction had prediction on affective commitment and normative commitment.It illustrated that improving nurses'job satisfaction can improve their belonging and the master spirit.