Working environment
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Date
2022
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
The study was conducted to explore the relationship between working environment,
empathic concern and professional quality of life among female staff nurses. It was
hypothesized that 1) there is likely to be a relationship between working environment,
empathic concern and professional quality of life among female staff nurses and 2) Working
environment and empathic concern are likely to predict professional quality of life among
female staff nurses. The correlational research design was used in the present study. About
190 nurses with age range of 19-58 years (M = 30.79, SD = 7.34) from different hospitals in
Lahore including Jinnah Hospital, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Govt. Mozanag Hospital and
Sheikh Zayed Hospital were approached. The self-constructed demographic sheet, Working
Environment Scale (Rossberg et al., 2004), empathic concern subscale of Interpersonal
Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983) and Professional Quality of Life scale (Stamm, 2010) were
used for assessment. The results of Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis concluded
that self-realization is positively associated with empathic concern and compassion
satisfaction among nurses. Further, it was found that workload in work environment is also
positively associated with secondary traumatic stress. Further, conflict and nervousness and
in the hospital environment is positively associated with burnout and secondary traumatic
stress. Results of Multiple Hierarchical Regression analyses showed that self-realization
positively predicted compassion satisfaction but negatively predicted burnout among female
staff nurses. Further, conflict and nervousness in work environment positively predicted
secondary traumatic stress and positively predicted burnout. This study is useful to highlight
the factors that affect professional quality of life of nurses and linking with their burnout and
secondary traumatic stress. This study can also be used in devising strategies to improve
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quality of work environment in hospitals influencing quality of life of healthcare profession
system and to devise strategies to help improve the professional quality of life of nurses.