The purpose of this study is to investigate the relating factors of stress response among newly graduated nurses. A total of 265 newly graduated nurses working in 23 children’s hospitals was surveyed 6 months after graduation. Four subscales of perceived stress: imcompetence of nursing care, conflict with other staff, quantitative workload, pain of patients, and one scale of self-evaluation on job were constructed as the explanatory variables, and as the criterion variables 7 subscales of the Stress Response Scale (Ozeki, 1990) were constructed by principal component analysis. Another variables considered in our model were socio-demographic factors (age, sex, marital status, etc.), education (a kind of nursing school,etc.) and their working place (the developmental level of inpatient children, the number of rooming-in mothers, etc.). A series of multiple regression analysis the scores of the Stress Response Scale as criterion variables indicated that they were strongly correlated with “conflict with other staff”, which was one of the perceived stress’s subscales, and the multiple correlation coefficient was .647 (R2=.418) using all 13 explanatory variables. Reason for this is discussed,and implication and future directions are outlined.
