title: Influence of stress resiliency on RN job satisfaction and intent to stay.
abstract: Registered nurse (RN) job satisfaction is a major predictor of intent to stay and job turnover, serious concerns to health care leaders. Predictors of job satisfaction include autonomy, control over daily practice, nurse-physician collaboration, transformational leadership, group cohesion, job stress, structural empowerment, and psychological empowerment. In the model of psychological empowerment, stress resiliency is the product of persons' interpretive styles and influences psychological empowerment. This study has evaluated the influence of stress resiliency on job stress, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and intent to stay using causal modeling. Participants are 464 RNs employed in five acute care hospitals in West Virginia. The final model has provided a very good fit to the data. Stress resiliency is a predictor of psychological empowerment, situational stress, and job satisfaction. This study provides the first evidence of the influence of stress resiliency on job stress, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, and intent to stay in a sample of RNs.
authors.affiliation: Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, School of Nursing, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA. jlarrabee@hsc.wvu.edu
authors.forename: June H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Larrabee
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Cynthia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Persily
authors.forename: Patricia S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Simoni
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.forename: Terri L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Marcischak
authors.forename: Christine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mott
authors.forename: Stephanie D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Gladden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014903:West Virginia / Q000453:epidemiology