Abstract

This study was aimed to help clinical nurses to establish affirmative self-concept and identity and provide basic materials helpful in the developement of nursing profession and effective person managementf of nursing organization by understanding the relation between the degree of job stress and the degree of job satisfaction perceived by clinical nurses and their elements. 350 clinical nurses working in general hospitals having over 400 beds in the Seoul have provided the materials through convenient sampling method which is the method of non-probability sampling. The materials have been collected from Sep. 04 ~ Sep. 30, 2000(27 days) by visiting the office of nursing division of the hospitals to distribute the question papers. The research tool developed by Koo, Mi Ok and Kim, Mae Ja as the one measuring the job stress was used after complementing, and the job satisfaction research tool which was developed by 3 persons including Slavitt, and used by Kim, Sook Ja has been used after partial revision and comlement. The structure of the tool has 13 items on general characters, 45 stress items, 32 job satisfaction degree items. The meterials were analyzed by SPSS PC + after computerization and general characters by actual number and percentage and job stress and degree of job satisfaction by average and standard deviation. Variables shown by comparing job stress to job satisfaction degree according to general characters of the nurses have been analyzed by t-test of F-test(ANOVA) and the variables shown the significant difference was tested by Duncan's Multiple Range test(DMR). The effect of job stress to job satisfaction was analyzed by stepwise multiple regression. The results of this study were as the follows ; 1) Average point of the job stress degree of clinical nurses was 3.54 while job satisfaction degree point was 2.95 in averagel. 2) There was no significant difference between general characters and job stress of clinical nurses(p>.05). 3) The relation between general characters and job stress significant difference according to age, marital status, number of children, religion, present position, career at present jog, the present hospital, total nursing career, present nursing department, motive of choosing the nursing service, and expected years of nurse showed significant difference(p<.05). The following groups showed the higher job satisfaction degree such as the group with high aged, the married group, high educated group, the group of over the position of charge nurse, group with long career at current job(Over 16 years), group with long career at current department(Over 11 years) and the group wishing to work as long as they are permittted. 4) The correlation between job stress and job satisfaction degree was : "Discords with medical doctor, one of the job stress elements", and "administration", one of the job satisfaction elements, showed higher negative correlation by r=-.370 between them. 5) The analysis of job stress elements influencing on jog satisfaction of clinical nurse the followings are the important elements ; 6 elements are items related with the duty schedule, discords with medical doctors, lack of professional knowledge and skill, psychological burden on the medical limitation, items related with the patients, and the remuneration of the nurse and such 6 elements appeared to be explaining the job satisfaction degree by 20%.

• Keywords: Job Stress, Satisfaction, Nurses;