Abstract

This study was designed to figure out the relationships between job stress and coping type of clinical nurses so as to apply appropriate stress management and intervention programs to groups in each stage of stress in order to help them overcome stress, and provide basic data required to improve work motivation and efficiency. The subject of this study were 254 nurses who worked at "C" hospital in Busan. In order to measure the stress of clinical nurses, this study used the measures of stress experienced by nurses during work that had been developed by Gu and Kim(1985). For the measurement of copying types of nurses, the tool developed by Lazarus & Folkman(1984) and translated, revised and completed by Han and Oh(1990) was used. The data for this study was gathered from September 3 to 7, 2007 and analyzed through SPSS/Win 12.0 program for frequency, percentile, t-test, ANOVA and AMOS 4.0. The result of this study are summarized below: The average job stress was 2.44${\PM}$ points(highest score:5), which was relatively low. By items, job circumstances 2.66 points, the hospital administration and ward management 2.53 points, personal relations 2.53, and nursing job 2.26 points. Age, shift, position, satisfaction of the job, satisfaction of amount of the job were related with an elements of stress(p<.05). In conclusion, the extent of the job stress of clinical nurses was relatively high, and they received heaviest stress from job circumstances. The factor of the job stress of the nurse is correlated with one another and influenced to the degree of the job stress directly and indirectly. The factor that affected the degree of the job stress directly was the job satisfaction and the personal values. As shown this result, it is important that the factor of the job stress.

본 연구는 임상 간호사의 직무스트레스, 직무만족도 및 이직충동간의 경로를 분석하기 위한 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 부산시에 소재한 2차 병원에 근무하는 간호사 254명이며, 연구도구는 직무스트레스를 측정하기 위하여 구미옥, 김매자(1985)가 개발한 간호사가 근무 중에 경험하는 직무스트레스 척도를 수정 보완한 것을 사용하였으며, 직무만족도는 한정석, 오가설(1990)이 개발한 것, 간호직에 대한 이직충동여부를 조사하기 위하여 본 연구자가 작성한 문항을 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/Win 12.0과 AMOS 4.0 통계프로그램을 이용하여 빈도, 백분율, t-test, ANOVA 및 구조방정식모형으로 분석하였다. 본 연구의 주요 결과로써 임상간호사는 직무환경에서 느끼는 직무스트레스가 높게 나타났다. 임상간호사의 직무스트레스는 직무만족도와 서로 연관성을 가지고 있고 이직충동에 직 간접적으로 영향을 미치고 있으며 이 중 직무만족도와 직무스트레스는 이직충동에 직접적으로 영향을 미치는 요인임을 알 수 있었다.

Keywords

• clinical nurses;
• job stress;
• job satisfaction;
• impulsed unemployment;
• path analysis

• 임상간호사;
• 직무스트레스;
• 직무만족도;
• 이직충동;
• 경로분석;