Psychological and organizational factors impacting job satisfaction during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A study on similar exposure groups in Indonesia

Introduction@#The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted technical workers who work more often in the field (e.g., engineering, mechanical, health safety environment (HSE), quality control, and production workers) with increasingly complex workloads and work pressures. Few studies have yet to examine the job satisfaction of such workers using a combination of psychological and organizational factors during difficult times, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. @*Objective@#This study aims to explain whether psychological and organizational factors affect employee job satisfaction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. @*Methods@#This quantitative research uses Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling. A survey with a questionnaire was used to collect data in this study. Using the non-probability sampling technique, data from 103 respondents spread throughout four Similar Exposure Groups (SEGs) in Indonesia were collected. Data analysis in this study used SmartPLS 3.0. @*Results@#Male workers in this study constituted more than 90% of the respondents, the majority with a long working period (more than five years). Worker experience was directly proportional to worker age; most workers were between 41 and 56 years old. The results, with a majority of SEGs from engineering, found that out of five hypotheses (H1–H5), four are accepted while one is rejected. Employee job satisfaction during this pandemic is influenced by the feeling of safety (H1) and work pressure (H3). Work pressure is further influenced by the feeling of safety at work (H2). Moreover, work pressure acts as a mediator on the feeling of safety and job satisfaction (H4). However, job satisfaction is not influenced by management commitment (H5). @*Conclusion@#Management commitment to work safety during pandemic situations must be adjusted, especially regarding policies to ensure the availability of additional standards on health protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. In addition, the guarantee that the company is committed to ensuring that workers feel safe will be covered if exposed to COVID-19. Occupational safety and health standards are no longer fully focused on work equipment or facilities. The feeling of safety and work pressure during a pandemic require attention from companies in accordance with their existing limitations and capabilities.

CAUSES OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG JUNIOR COLLEGE LECTURERS

Occupational stress is a noticeable and widespread aspect of contemporary businesses. The right amount of stress may motivate someone and boost performance, while too much stress results in poor performance. One of the jobs with the highest stress is teaching. Psychiatric disorders can result from excessive stress. The study's goal is to identify the main factors contributing to junior college lecturers' stress. The present study involves 79 lecturers from private junior colleges (43 male and 36 female). Two sections (Part A & B) make up the questionnaire. Part-A contains demographic data on junior college lecturers, and Part-B has nine stress-related factors against which lecturers have to give ranking from most stress factor 1 to least stress factor 9. Statistical analysis employs the Garrett ranking approach. The ?ndings show that lecturers experience the highest stress from students' misbehavior, followed by work pressure and no job security.

The mediating effects of perceived social support between clinicians' work pressure and compassion fatigue / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To explore the relationship among clinicians' work pressure,perceived social support and compassion fatigue,and to provide a new prospective for the localization studying of intervention and treatment to compassion fatigue.Methods Data of scale for occupational stressors on clinician,perceived social support scale and professional quality of life scale were collected from a sample of 533 clinicians and analyzed with structural equation modeling to study the relationship among clinicians' work pressure,perceived social support and compassion fatigue.Results (1)Work pressure(2.40±0.45),burnout (2.14±0.54) and secondary traumatic stress(1.93±0.60) scores of the clinicians with high perceived social support were significantly lower than that of the clinicians with low perceived social support (2.78±3.67,2.73± 0.59,2.32±0.71;t=7.68,-9.44,8.77,5.07;P＜0.01).Compassion satisfaction scores (4.15±0.63) of the clinicians with high perceived social support were significantly higher than that of the clinicians with low perceived social support (3.40±0.71,t =-9.44,P＜0.01).(2) According to relevant results,work pressure was significantly negative correlation with both perceived social support (r=-0.34,P＜0.01) and compassion satisfaction (r=-0.44,P＜0.01),and significantly positive correlation with both burnout (r=0.69,P＜0.01) and secondary traumatic stress(r=0.53,P＜0.01);while perceived social support was significantly positive correlation with compassion satisfaction (r=0.42,P＜0.01),and significantly negative correlation with burnout (r=-0.40,P＜0.01) and secondary traumatic stress(r=-0.26,P＜0.01).(3) According to the results of structural equation modeling,perceived social support played a partly mediating role in the effect of work pressure toward compassion satisfaction and fatigue with the intermediary effect of 55.4％ and 12.5％.Conclusion Perceived social support plays a mediation role between work pressure and compassion fatigue for clinicians,and better social support of the clinician is beneficial to clinicians mental health level.

The research of relationship between work pressure and mental resilience as well as mental health ;in new nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To maintain the good psychological state of new nurses, stabilize nursing troop and improve nursing quality, we investigate the work pressure source and mental health of new nurses and analyze the correlation among work pressure, mental resilience and mental health. Methods According to the principle of convenience sampling,a total of 116 new nurses who get the job less than one year in the first hospital of Jilin university were investigated using the method of questionnaire survey. The Conner Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) were involved in the questionnaire. Results Mental resilience scores of new nurses were (63.73±15.11), the scores of anxiety and depression were (34.49±6.45) and (35.59±7.24). Work pressure was negatively correlated with mental resilience (P<0.01) and positively correlated with anxiety and depression (P<0.01). New nurses worried about making mistakes in the work accounted for 89.42 percents (93/104), which was the highest score in the stress source. Conclusions New nurses have good mental resilience and psychological health level, but work pressure has certain impact on mental resilience and mental health. Hospital managers should take active measures which include reducing pressure and improving the ability to help the new nurses through the adaptation as soon as possible.

Work Pressure and Safety Behaviors among Health Workers in Ghana: The Moderating Role of Management Commitment to Safety

BACKGROUND: safety and healthy working environment has received numerous research attention over the years. Majority of these researches seem to have been conducted in the construction industry, with little attention in the health sector. Nonetheless, there are couple of studies conducted in Africa that suggest pressure in hospitals. Therefore the aim of the study was to examine how pressure influence safety behavior in the hospitals. With reference to the relevance of safety behavior in primary health care delivery, there was the need for the study. METHOD: Data was obtained from 422 public hospital employees. Respondents were assured that all information would be kept confidential to increase the response rate and acquire more accurate information. Collection of questionnaires from participants took four weeks (20 working days), after which the data was analyzed. RESULTS: The result of the study showed that work pressure correlated negatively with safety behavior. General safety climate significantly correlated positively with safety behavior and negatively with work pressure, although the effect size for the latter was smaller. Hierarchical regression analysis showed management commitment to safety to moderate the relationship between work pressure and safety behavior. CONCLUSION: When employees perceive safety communication, safety systems and training to be positive, they seem to comply with safety rules and procedures than voluntarily participate in safety activities.

Investigation and Analysis of Physical and Mental Health of Nurses / 中国医科大学学报

Objective to investigate the situation of occupational health of nurses,so as to provide a reference for protecting the health of nurses. Methods Cluster sampling method was employed in this study. totally 1 204 nurses of two three-level general hospital and a cancer hospital in Bei-jing were randomly surveyed with homemade health of nurses′cross-sectional questionnaire,and a nurse medical examination report was access at the same time. Results there was statistically significant difference in the incidence of nurses work pressure and work fatigue in different hospitals and different departments(P < 0.05). 95.18% of the nurses undergo regular medical examinations,of which 56.97% were found abnormal. the dif-ferences in the incidence rate of abnormal medical examination results in nurses were statistically significant among different hospital and different de-partments(P < 0.05). Conclusion Great job stress and work fatigue are observed in nurses,and they have health problems. It is necessary for the hospital to take appropriate interventions to improve physical and mental health nurses.

Survey on the pressures from night shifts and the countermeasures / 现代临床护理

Objective To investigate the pressures from night shifts among nurses from pediatrics department and find the countermeasures.Methods A self-designed questionnaire was used to investigate the pressures from night shifts among 112 nurses from pediatrics department as well as the reasons.Results 110 of the nurses(98.2%) assumed that the pressures from night shifts was intensive.The main reasons for the pressures came out of heavy workload,shortage of staff and stuff and the unsettled balance between job and family.Conclusion Such measures as reasonable distributions of nurses,abound supply of stuff and reduced working links may be effective for the alleviation of the pressures on nurses at night shifts,motivated activeness in them and then the enhancement of nursing quality.

Investigation into nurses work pressure and turnover intention in shareholding hospital / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To understand the status of nurses work pressure and turnover intention in shareholding hospital, and to explore the relationship between them. Methods 153 nurses were investigated with Nursing Job Stress Scale and Turnover Intention Questionnaire. Results Nurses work pressure scored (102.07 ± 20.17). Workload and time allocation was the main job stressor among nurses; the nurses'turnover intention scored (14.73±3.54); the correlation coefficients between the job pressure and turnover intention was 0,374; the correlation coefficients between the pressure of nursing work- professional and turnover intention was 0.508; the correlation coefficients between the pressure of workload- time allocation and turnover intention was 0.348. Conclusions The job pressure of nurses was high in shareholding hospital. Nurses work pressure was positively correlated with turnover intention.

Research in work pressure and its influencing factors in general surgical nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To approach work pressure and its influencing factors in general surgical nurses. Methods 105 general surgical nurses were selected from 8 hospitals with stratification clus-tering randomization methods. The job stressor inventory,- personality scale, coping styles questionnaire and general state of health questionnaire were used to carry out investigation and the results underwent analysis. Results The main stressors came from the factor of workload and time allocation, then from nursing specialty and job. Working time more than 10 years, undergraduate degree or above, work shift, neuroticism, wrapping, avoidance, letting off were risk factors of work pressure in general surgical nurses. Age more than 40 years old, nurse and associate director, exotrophy, planning to solve the ques-tions, seeking social support, rational coping were protective factors of work pressure for nurses. Con-clusions The overall pressure level of general surgical nurses was moderate. We should cultivate favourable personality of nurses and positive coping styles in combination with their demography char-acters to prevent work pressure.

Research in relationship between sources of work pressure and level of mental health in operating room nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To approach the relationship between sources of work pressure and level of men-tal health in operating room nurses. Methods 130 operating room nurses from 5 general hospitals in Zhe-jiang province were investigated with Chinese nurses stressor scale, self-rating depression scale (SDS) and self-rating anxiety scale(SAS). Results Work pressure mainly came from nursing speciality and work,work load and time and work environment and time assignment, patient nursing, management and interpersonal rela-tions came secondly. Anxiety and depression of operating room nurses were higher than normal persons. The scores of anxiety and depression were correlated with nursing speciality and work, work load and time, pa-tient nursing, management and interpersonal relations, but was not correlated with work environment and time assignment. Conclusions There are various sources of work pressure in operating room nurses, meanwhile their mental health level is low. Regulators should take corresponding measures, relieve their work pressure and improve their mental health.