Job stress, Self-efficacy and Health Promoting Behaviors in Hospital Nurses

Chung, Eui Chung; Doh, Bok Num

doi:2002.11.3.398

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs > Volume 11(3); 2002 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2002;11(3):398-405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2002.11.3.398 Published online September 30, 2002.

Job stress, Self-efficacy and Health Promoting Behaviors in Hospital Nurses

Eui Chung Chung, Bok Num Doh

Department of Nursing, The Graduate School of KyungPook National University

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the scores of job stress, self-efficacy and health promoting behavior for practical nurses and to define the correlation of three variables.
Methods
These data were collected by 201 subjects, using to self-reported questionnaire from September 15 to October 5, 2001.
Results
The mean score of Job Stress was 3.87 and Self-Efficacy Scale was 3.58, Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile was 2.60. The relationship between job stress and self -efficacy and Job stress and health promoting behavior were not statistically significant. The relationship between self-efficacy and health prompting behavior was statistically significant(0.418, p = .000). The result of influence of self-efficacy accounted for 17.5% of variance in health promoting behaviors.
Conclusion
Job stress did not affect to decrease the level of self-efficacy and health promoting behaviors. The self-efficacy is influent health promoting behaviors as like previous study. However, because the average score of job stress was similar between participants so it did not affect to both self-efficacy and health promoting behavior. Moreover in clinical environment, hospital nurses are coping to their job stress adequately, so it was not affect to both variables.

Key Words: Nurse; Stress; Self-efficacy; Health promoting behavior