title: Job stress, mentoring, psychological empowerment, and job satisfaction among nursing faculty.
abstract: The National League for Nursing endorses mentoring throughout nursing faculty's careers as the method to recruit nurses into academia and improve retention of nursing faculty within the academy. A nationwide sample of 959 full-time nursing faculty completed a descriptive survey comprising a researcher-created demographic questionnaire plus Dreher's mentoring scale, Gmelch's faculty stress index, Spreitzer's psychological empowerment scale, and the National Survey for Postsecondary Faculty's job satisfaction scale. Results showed that 40% of the sample had a current work mentor. Variables showed significant relationships to job satisfaction (p < 0.01): mentoring quality (0.229), job stress (-0.568), and psychological empowerment (0.482). Multiple regression results indicated job satisfaction was significantly influenced (p < 0.01) by the presence of a mentoring relationship, salary, tenure status, psychological empowerment, and job stress. The regression model explained 47% of the variance in job satisfaction for the sample.
authors.affiliation: National University, Henderson, NV 89052, USA. cchung@nu.edu
authors.forename: Catherine E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kowalski
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States