Effective Factors on Job Stress and Its Relationship with Organizational ‎Commitment of Nurses in Hospitals of Nicosia

Job stress is a psychological variable that has gained increasing importance in human ýresource management studies in recent years. Nursing is one of the professions which might be exposed to various ýsources of job stress due to its special nature, particularly its relation with patients’ ýphysical health. This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of factors including ýworkload, lack of control, information gap, confidence and proficiency in the role, ýmanagement’s relationship and support, and coworkers’ relationship and support on the ýjob stress of nurses, and to identify the consequences of job stress in relation to ýnurses’ organizational commitment. The population comprised all nurses working in ýdifferent treatment and health departments of state and private hospitals of Nicosia. ýThe questionnaires were distributed and finally 100 questionnaires returned by the nurses during several follow-up stages carried out by the ýresearcher. In order to identify the factors influencing job stress, standard models ýdeveloped by HSE (2004b), Davis et al. (1991) and Osipow (1987) were used. In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression were used by SPSS software. Results show that information gap exerts a positive ýeffect on nurses’ job stress, whereas confidence and proficiency in the role and ýmanagement relationship and support exerts a negative effect on their job stress. ýHowever, the significant effect of workload, lack of control, and coworkers’ relationship ýand support was not confirmed. Finally, identification of job stress consequences ýrevealed that nurses with lower levels of job stress enjoyed higher organizational ýcommitment.