The Relationship Between Job Stress and Turnover Intention and Early Retirement of nurses: Investigating the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

Occupational stress is an interactive situation between the job situation and the person working in that job.In the effort-reward imbalance model, which is a method for measuring job stress, the imbalanced relationship between the invested efforts and the rewards received in employees causes stressful reactions. which in the long term causes physical and mental damage to the person. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between job stress and the intention to leave the job and early retirement by investigating the mediating role of job satisfaction in nurses.

This study is a correlational study that was collected in 2017 by field method and through a questionnaire. The study sample was 455 nurses working in the government hospitals of Hamedan city. Data collection tools in this research included 4 self-report questionnaires including job stress, intention to turnover, early retirement and job satisfaction. Finally, after collecting data, SPSS software version 18 was used for analysis.

The results of this study showed that there was a significant negative relationship between effort-reward imbalance with job satisfaction and a significant positive relationship with the intention to  turnover, but no significant relationship was observed between effort-reward imbalance and the intention to retire early. Also, there was a significant negative relationship between job stress and job satisfaction.

According to the results, the variables used in this research, especially the variables that had a mediating role, should be considered in organizational planning and policies to reduce occupational diseases and increase employee health.