Stress in Nurses: Stress-Related Affect and Its Determinants Examined Over the Nursing Day

Abstract

The same factors are associated with variations in stress-related affect within nurses as between.

Occupational Stress and Its Impact on Job Performance

“…In terms of theoretical contribution, the results of this study confirm that occupational stress has been an important antecedent of job performance in the studied organization. This result also has supported and extended studies published in most Western countries [17] [19][21] [24]. In regard with the robustness of research methodology, the survey questionnaires used in this study have satisfactorily met the standards of validity and reliability analyses.…”

“…Many scholars argue that the role of occupational stress as an important antecedent is inadequately explained in the previous studies because they have much emphasized on debating occupational stress concept, employed a metaanalysis method to describe the features of occupational stress in various organizational settings, implemented a simple survey method to assess respondent attitudes toward occupational stress features, and neglected to measure the effect size and nature of the correlation between occupational stress and job performance. As a result, this study paradigm has provided inadequate findings to be used as important recommendations by practitioners in understanding the complexity of occupational stress and formulating occupational stress programs for growth and competitive organizations [17][19] [21]. Thus, it encourages the researchers to fill in the gap of the literature by executing the relationship between occupational stress (i.e., PHS and PSS) and job performance.…”

“…For example, several recent studies using a direct effect model were conducted to investigate occupational stress based on different samples like 254 nurses over three nursing shifts [17], 333 nurses from four hospitals in Kampala, Uganda [18], 304 call center employees in the UK [19], 100 nurses from a large general teaching hospital in Scotland [21], and 213 employees at six geographic Logistics Centers within a medium-sized Fortune 500 company in the Southeastern 3rd International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology (ICIBET 2014) United States [24]. The outcomes of these studies reported that the inability of employees to manage, regulate and control their job had invoked employees' physiological and psychological stresses.…”

“…The outcomes of these studies reported that the inability of employees to manage, regulate and control their job had invoked employees' physiological and psychological stresses. As a result, it could lead to lower job performance in the respective organizations [17][18] [19][21] [24]. Based the literature, it was hypothesized that:…”

Causes of stress experienced by nurses and its effects on nurses

“…Thus, increased work burden may prevent nurses from establishing control over work. Some studies pointed out that control over work, requiring the jobs done with minimum sources and in the shortest time, causes nurses to experience stress, too (Yada et al, 2015;Han, Trinkoff, Storr, Geiger-Brown, Johnson & Park, 2012;Ozen, 2013;Johnston, Jones, Charles, McCann & McKee, 2013). However; nurses may face frustration and disappointment when they cannot provide a care of high quality they aim at and cannot answer patients' demands due to high work burden; which eventually leads to stress, too.…”