2023 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 43-57
This study investigated occupational stress and the related factors among newly graduated nurses working in acute care departments, focusing especially on resilience, a psychological characteristic that facilitates recovery from negative events. A total of 454 participants were surveyed using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire to investigate demographic data, as well as the Brief Occupational Stress Questionnaire, the Bidimensional Resilience Scale, and the evaluation of support content(emotional, evaluative, instrumental, and informational support); 128 valid responses were analyzed. Multiple regression analysis was employed to analyze the factors associated with the psychological stress response in participants divided into high-and-low-innate resilience score groups. The results indicate that “work and life satisfaction” was negatively associated with the psychological stress response in both groups, but some factors differed. In the low-resilience group, “qualitative psychological workload” was associated with psychological stress as a positive factor, whereas in the high-resilience group, “stress in interpersonal relationships at work” was associated with psychological stress as a positive factor and “information support” with as a negative one. Our findings highlight that factors reducing psychological stress vary depending on the level of innate resilience.
