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Objective@#To evaluate occupational stress and perceptions of the work experience among the nurses, and to analyze the effects of recovery experiences on the adjustment of the relationship of stress and perceptions of the work experience. @*Methods@#A questionnaire survey was conducted among nurses from 7 third hospitals in a city through sampling. A self-designed questionnaire, "Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) " , "Recovery Experience Questionnaire (REQ-C) " and "Quality of working life (QWL7-32) " were completed by the subjects. Establishment of recovery experience types by sample cluster analysis, combined with regression analysis in the regulation of perceptions of the work experience of recovery experiences’types. @*Results@#There have differences instatus and score of perceptions of the work experience among nurses with different tension level (P<0.05) . The Perceptions of Work Experience scores of nurses with different types of recovery experience are different with the tension level, and the type of recovery experience has an independent moderating effect on the relationship between tension and perceptions of work experience. @*Conclusion@#The moderating effects of different types of recovery experiences on perceptions of work experience are different.
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Objective@#To examine the relationship between recovery experience, occupational stress, and physiological health of nurses in a municipal grade A tertiary hospital.@*Methods@#A total of 296 in-service nurses from 7 municipal grade A tertiary hospitals were selected from October 2015 to February 2016. Individual characteristics of the subjects were collected using a self-made questionnaire. The recovery experience, occupational stress, and physiological health of the subjects were assessed based on the physiological health dimensions in the Chinese version of Recovery Experience Questionnaire (REQ-C) , Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) , and Quality of Work Life (QWL7-32) .@*Results@#The mean recovery experience score of nurses from the municipal grade A tertiary hospital was 45.04±7.72, and 51.35% of the nurses had satisfactory recovery experience. Occupational stress was identified in 81.76% of the nurses. Based on the four categories of occupational stress, 65 nurses were identified with high-strain jobs (21.95%) , 56 with relaxed (low-strain) jobs (18.92%) , 49 with passive jobs (16.55%) , and 126 with active jobs (42.57%) . In addition, the mean physiological health score of the nurses was 21.20±4.24. Physiological health was negatively correlated with occupational stress (r=-0.173, P<0.05) , but positively correlated with recovery experience (r=0.198, P<0.01) . Recovery experience was negatively correlated with occupational stress (r=-0.116, P<0.05) . Job demand was the major contributor to occupational stress, where subjects with high-demand active jobs had the poorest recovery experience (F=2.610, P<0.05) and physiological health (F=8.166, P<0.01) .@*Conclusion@#Job demand has a great impact on the occupational stress of nurses, where increased job demand can lead to stronger stress response, reduced recovery experience, and poorer physiological health.