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Nurse safety: How is safety climate related to affect and attitude?
Work & Stress, Vol.29, pp.401-419
29
2015
Web of Science ID: WOS:000364339600005
Abstract
for nurses, given the hazardous healthcare environment. This study advances the research on workplace safety by studying the process variables (i.e. job-related negative affect (JRNA) and job satisfaction) in explaining the relationship between safety climate and various
safety criteria in nurses. Based on survey data from 326 nurses, our findings suggest that psychological safety climate is negatively related to JRNA, turnover intentions, safety workarounds, and workplace hazards. In addition, structural equation modelling indicated general support for a model in which psychological safety climate influences employee strain through job attitudes, including JRNA and job satisfaction. More specifically, job attitudes were found to mediate the relationship between psychological safety climate and turnover intentions,
experience of hazards, and injuries. Safety workarounds did not significantly relate to injuries. The present study contributes to the ongoing improvement of interventions aimed at mitigating nurses’ injuries by integrating job attitudes into the safety climate–safety outcome framework.
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- Title
- Nurse safety
- Publication Details
- Work & Stress, Vol.29, pp.401-419
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis; London
- Series
- 29
- Copyright
- © 2015 Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- WOS:000364339600005; 99380090892306600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English