| Keywords |
Job stress; Positive psychological capital; Health promotion behavior; Nurses |
| Abstract |
This study is a descriptive study to identify a nurse's job stress and positive psychological capital and their impact on health promotion behavior and at providing basic data to improve their health promotion behavior. The collected data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS WIN 27.0 program with frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, LSD test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Hierarchical regression. Work overload(r=-.17, р=.027) and low reward(r=-.19, р=.038), which is a subcategory of job stress, had statistically significant negative correlations with health promotion behavior. Positive psychology capital had a statistically significant positive correlation with health promotion behavior(r=.42, р<.001). For hierarchical regression analysis, low reward, work overload, and positive psychological capital were put into the Model. Only positive psychology capital exhibited a statistically significant effect on health promotion behavior(β=.40, p<.001), which explained 17.8% of health promotion behavior in nurses(F=13.22, p<.001). In conclusion, notwithstanding job stress, health promotion behavior of the nurses was enhanced in proportion to the degree of positive psychological capital, a plan to strengthen positive psychological capital should be considered when establishing measures to improve health promotion behavior of nurses. |