The Job Stressor Experienced by Hospital Nurses: Development of the Nursing Job Stressor Scale and Examination of Psychometric Properties

Abstract

Constructed and tested an instrument, the 55-item Nursing Job Stressor Scale. Human Ss: 463 normal Japanese adults (aged less than 29 yrs to over 50 yrs) (hospital nurses). Ss were asked to indicate on a 5-point scale how intensively they experienced various nursing situations as stressful. Factor analysis using principal factoring with varimax rotation yielded 7 subscales that closely paralleled the conceptual categories of stressor on which the scale was based: Conflict with Other Nursing Staffs, Nursing Role Conflict, Conflict with Physicians and Autonomy, Death and Dying, Qualitative Work Load, Quantitative Work Load, and Conflict with Patients. A new 33-item scale was developed. Test–retest reliability, internal consistency, and validity were assessed. (English abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)