Turnover prevention: The direct and indirect association between organizational job stressors, negative emotions and professional commitment in novice nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Getting insight in the most crucial organizational job stressors for novice nurses' professional commitment and whether the job stressors are mediated through negative emotions.

Design

The study used an observational cohort design.

Methods

Organizational job stressors were derived from 580 diary entries by 18 novice nurses combined with measures on emotions and commitment. The diaries were collected from September 2013-September 2014.

Results

Path modelling revealed that lack of support from colleagues, negative experiences with patients and confrontations with existential events were most strongly negatively related to professional commitment through negative emotions. Other indirectly and negatively related organizational job stressors to commitment were

SUBMITTER: Ten Hoeve Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7028052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature