Occupational stressors, coping styles and mental health problems in nurses of private and government hospitals
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2014
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University of Management and Technology
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The current research was conducted on the nurses of government and private hospitals. The aim of the research was to find out the occupational job stressors, coping styles that nurses deploy to overcome the stressors and mental health problems as a result of the job stressors and faulty coping styles among the nurses of government and private hospitals. It was a comparative research and a cross-sectional research design was used to find out the differences in the occupational job stressors, coping styles and mental health problems among nurses of government and private hospitals. The total sample consisted of 300 nurses, 150 from government hospitals and 150 from private hospitals. An indigenous scale was developed to measure the occupational job stressors of the nurses known as the Occupational Stress Scale for Nurses. Cope Scale (Saleem, Irshad, & Mahmood, 2012) was adapted to find the coping styles of the nurses and General Health Questionnaire-12 (Goldberg, 1978) was used to locate the mental health problems of the nurses of government and private hospitals. The results suggested that there is a significant relationship between the job stressors of government and private hospitals, the nurses of private hospital experience more stress as compared to the nurses working in government hospitals. It was also found out that higher the level of occupational job stressors, higher the degree of mental health problems. In summary the results suggest that occupational stressors differ among different sectors. This study will lay a foundation for further researches in the area; it will also shed light on the stressors and mental health problems faced by the nurses.
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MS Thesis, Clinical Psychology