The purpose of this study was to compare job stress and satisfaction of western
hospital nurses and oriental hospital nurses. The subjects were 256 nurses(135 of
western hospital nurses, 121 of oriental hospital nurses) and data were collected from 20
March to 25 August 1998.
The items used for this study were items for genernal characteristics(7 items), job
stress(6 items) and job satisfaction(20 items).
Analysis of data was done by use of mean. percentage, chi-squre test, t-test and
pearson correlation with SPSS program.
The results of this study were as follows:
1) The mean score(3.16/5) of hospital nurses was significantly higher than the mean
score(2.97/5) of oriental hospital nurses in job stress.
2) The mean score(2.97/5) of hospital nurses was significantly higher than the mean
score(2.64/5) of oriental hospital nurses in job satisfaction.
3) There were significant negative correlation between job stress and the factors of
job satisfaction : decision-making fators(r=-0.421, p=.000), group conflict factors(r=-0.301.
p=.041). role implementation fators(r=-0.209, p=.047) and personal socialization
fators(r=-0.132. p=.027).
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