title: Home health nurses: stress, self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction.
abstract: A survey of 253 home health care nurses' perceptions of work-related stress, self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction found that stress has a negative correlation with self-esteem, social intimacy, and job satisfaction. A positive correlation, however, was found between self-esteem and social intimacy and job satisfaction. Health system administrators, owners, and directors had significantly higher levels of self-esteem, nurses with 5 years or more in their home health nursing position had significantly higher levels of self-esteem. The survey found that nurses with less than a baccalaureate degree possessed significantly lower levels of sociability than those with a graduate or baccalaureate degree. Administrators and managers scored significantly higher on sociability than head nurses.
authors.affiliation: Barnes College of Nursing, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lindquist
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires