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KMID : 0614820090150040539
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2009 Volume.15 No. 4 p.539 ~ p.549
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The Relationships among Trait Anger, Anger Expression, Jab Satisfaction, Job Commitment, and Organizational Performance in Clinical Nurses
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Lee Won-Hee
Song Ju-Eun
Kim Joo-Hyung
Kim Hee-Jung
Lee Ju-Mi
Kim Un-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships among trait anger, anger expression, job satisfaction, job commitment, and organizational performance, and especially to verify the effect of anger experience on organizational performance.
Method: A descriptive study was conducted using a convenient sample. Data were collected by a self-report questionnaire from 671 clinical nurses in three university hospitals and analyzed by using SPSS 14.0 Win program with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression.
Result: Organizational performance was significantly correlated with trait anger, anger expression-in, anger expression-out, anger control, job satisfaction, and job commitment. Multiple regression analysis showed that organizational performance was significantly predicted by job commitment, job satisfaction, educational level (university graduation), anger control, and working place (operative room), and 34.7% was explained by these variables.
Conclusions: Out of anger expression, anger control significantly affected on organizational performance together with job commitment and job satisfaction. From this result, it could be concluded that nursing intervention for anger control have a positive effect on improving organizational performance. Further studies are needed to develop and test the effect of nursing intervention programs for anger control.
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KEYWORD
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Nurses, Anger, Organizational productivity, Job satisfaction, Job commitment
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