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KMID : 0926620180230030072
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Korean Journal of Hospital Management
2018 Volume.23 No. 3 p.72 ~ p.86
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Job Stress and Organizational Commitment with Regard to Adult Attachment Style of Small and Medium-sized Hospital Nurses
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Jeong Eun-Sook
Kim Ji-Won
Bae Sung-Yoon
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Abstract
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This study was designed to identify the adult attachment style among hospital nurses, and to examine its effect on nurses’ job stress and organizational commitment. Self-administered survey questionnaires with structured instruments were developed, and a total of 281 responses from five small to medium-sized hospitals were used for statistical analyses with SPSS Windows version 24.0 program. Major findings of the study are three fold. First, among the four styles of adult attachment, found in 30.6% of survey respondents, stability style was the most popular, followed by fear style(28.5%), disregard style(24.2%), and devotion style(17.8%). Second, according to the general characteristics of study participants, adult attachment style showed a significant difference in age(χ2=23.29, p=.025). Third, multiple regression analyses showed that hospital nurses with the fear style among other adult attachment styles had a significantly higher job stress compared to those with the stability style. The fear style also affected the nurses’ organizational commitment level in a negative way, but the effect was only marginal. Results from this study suggest that customized program based on the nurses’ adult attachment style should be developed to enhance their organizational commitment while reducing job stress in small to medium-sized hospitals.
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KEYWORD
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Attachment, Job Stress, Organizational Commitment, Hospital, Nurse
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