Determining the Relationship between Global Future Perception, Job Insecurity and Future Anxiety in Healthcare Professionals

Year 2025, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 368 - 377, 26.08.2025

Ayşe Karadaş , Sibel Ergün

https://doi.org/10.38108/ouhcd.1383973

Abstract

Objective: Globalization affects healthcare professionals’ working conditions, ways of doing business, and perspectives for the future. From this perspective, the research aims to determine the relationship between global future perception, job insecurity, and future anxiety among healthcare professionals.
Method: The research was conducted with 414 healthcare professionals. “The Perceived Global Future Scale,” “Job Insecurity Scale,” and “Dark Future Scale” were used as data collection tools.
Results: The Perceived global future scale total score average of the healthcare professionals was 2.19±0.91, the dark future scale score average was 23.31±6.44, and the job insecurity scale score average was 22.37±4.03. A weak positive relationship was observed between the perceived global future scale and the job insecurity scale. A significant relationship was observed between the perceived global future scale factors and the job insecurity scale and future anxiety scale (p < .05). A significant and positive weak relationship was observed between the job insecurity scale and the future anxiety scale (p < .05).
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between global future perception and factors and job insecurity and future anxiety among healthcare professionals. As the perception of job insecurity increases, future anxiety also increases. At this point, it is recommended that institution managers and manager nurses at the micro level and policymakers at the macro level take initiatives to reduce job insecurity and future anxiety that are affected by globalization.

Keywords

Future anxiety , future perception , health professional , job insecurity

Sağlık Çalışanlarında Küresel Gelecek Algısı, İş Güvencesizliği ve Gelecek Kaygısı Arasındaki İlişkinin Belirlenmesi

Abstract

Amaç: Küreselleşme sağlık çalışanlarının çalışma koşullarını, iş yapma biçimlerini ve geleceğe ilişkin bakış açılarını etkilemektedir. Bu bağlamda, araştırmanın amacı sağlık çalışanlarında küresel gelecek algısı, iş güvencesizliği ve gelecek kaygısı arasındaki ilişkinin belirlenmesidir.
Yöntem: Araştırma 414 sağlık çalışanı ile yürütülmüştür. Veri toplama aracı olarak “Algılanan Küresel Gelecek Ölçeği,” “İş Güvencesizliği Ölçeği,” ve “Gelecek Kaygısı Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Sağlık çalışanlarının Algılanan küresel gelecek ölçeği toplam puan ortalaması 2.19±0.91, Gelecek kaygısı ölçeği puan ortalaması 23.31±6.44 ve iş güvencesizliği ölçeği puan ortalaması 22.37±4.03 olarak belirlendi. Algılanan küresel gelecek ölçeği ile iş güvencesizliği ölçeği arasında pozitif yönlü zayıf ilişki, Algılanan küresel gelecek ölçeği faktörleri ile iş güvencesizliği ölçeği ve gelecek kaygısı ölçeği arasında anlamlı ilişkiler gözlemlendi (p< .05). İş güvencesizliği ölçeği ile gelecek kaygısı ölçeği arasında anlamlı ve pozitif yönlü zayıf ilişki gözlemlendi (p< .05).
Sonuç: Sağlık çalışanlarında küresel gelecek algısı ve faktörleri ile iş güvencesizliği ve gelecek kaygısı arasında anlamlı ilişki vardır. İş güvencesizliği algısı arttıkça gelecek kaygısı da artmaktadır. Bu noktada mikro düzeyde kurum yöneticileri ve yönetici hemşirelerin, makro düzeyde ise politika belirleyicilerin küreselleşmenin etkilediği iş güvencesizliği ve gelecek kaygısını azaltmaya yönelik girişimlerde bulunmaları önerilir.

Keywords

gelecek algısı , Gelecek kaygısı , iş güvencesizliği , sağlık çalışanı

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