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Frontiers in Psychology
“I Just Can’t Take It Anymore”: How Specific Work Characteristics Impact Younger Versus Older Nurses’ Health, Satisfaction, and Commitment
Katarzyna Czabanowska1  Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden7  Anja Van den Broeck8  Inge Houkes1,10 
[1] 0Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland;Business School of Hubei University, Hubei University, Wuhan, China;Department of International Health and Care, Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;Department of Marketing, Innovation and Organisation, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;Department of Work and Organization Studies, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands;Kingston Business School, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom;Optentia, North West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa;School of Management, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, Netherlands;Social Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands;
关键词: nurses;    labor relations;    work content;    conditions of employment;    burnout;    job satisfaction;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00762
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

Given the increasing shortage of active nurses in industrialized countries throughout the world, it is of utmost importance to protect their health, satisfaction, and commitment so that they can continue working in their healthcare institution. Building upon the proposed pattern of specific relationships developed by Houkes et al. (2003), we investigated a model of relationships among working conditions (quantitative, emotional, and physical demands), labor relations (quality of interpersonal relations and psychological support), work content (meaning of work, influence at work), and employment conditions (opportunities for development) on the one hand, and health, job satisfaction, and institutional affective commitment on the other hand, for younger versus older nurses. We used data of 3,399 nurses from the Netherlands and 3,636 nurses from Poland from the larger European Nurses’ Early Exit Study (NEXT) and performed longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) and multi-group analyses. The results showed that the proposed pattern of relationships generally holds, but that the nurses’ level of commitment is more determined by meaning of work than by opportunities for development and that psychological support is associated with job satisfaction (and not only with burnout as hypothesized, in both the Netherlands and Poland). Comparing younger (<40 years) versus older (≥40 years) nurses, we found ample support for differences in the proposed model relationships across age category, some being in line with and some being contradictory to our expectations. We argue that a non-normative, tailor-made approach to aging at work might help us to protect the nurses’ career sustainability across the life span. This study provides evidence-based practical recommendations on how to enhance the health, job satisfaction, and commitment of nurses throughout their working life.

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