Effect of Nurses’ Autonomy Levels and Problem-Solving Skills on Job Satisfaction

Year 2023, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 370 - 375, 15.06.2023

Nukhet Bayer , Didem Şimşek , Özlem Ülkü Bulut , Zehra Gölbaşı

https://doi.org/10.33808/clinexphealthsci.1119340

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of nurses’ autonomy levels and problem-solving skills on job satisfaction and was conducted in public, private and university hospital between July and September 2021.
Methods: This descriptive and relational – screening study was conducted with 278 nurses. Data were collected through the Socio-demographic Form, the Problem-Solving Inventory, the Sociotrophy-Autonomy Scale, and the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (MJSQ). Data were analyzed using SPSS 26 and AMOS 24 programs using numbers, percentages, minimum/maximum values, means, and standard deviation values.
Results: Modern mediation analysis findings performed using the Bootstrap method showed that the indirect effect of the autonomy score on the overall satisfaction score with the mediation of the problem-solving skills was significant (p< .05).
Conclusion: Problem-solving skills were found to have a partial mediating role in the effect of nurses’ autonomy levels on their job satisfaction.

Keywords

Autonomy, problem-solving skills, nursing, job satisfaction, structural equation

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