EFFECTS OF STRESS COPING INTERVENTIONS ON LEVEL OF STRESS, BURNOUT, AND ASSERTIVENESS EXPERIENCED BY NURSES IN TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The central purposes of this study were to examine: (1) the effectiveness of Assertiveness Training (AT) and Assertiveness Training with Problem Solving (AT&PS) in improving levels of stress, burnout and assertiveness; and (2) the relationships between selected individual characteristics on the demographic variables and the above dependent measures among nurses in Taiwan.

The three-group experimental design was followed by a pilot study which was conducted in a branch hospital of VGH to examine the effectiveness of the interventions and reassess the reliability of the Chinese version of the dependent measures--RAS, MBI and PSS. A sample of ninety volunteer nurses from the Veterans General Hospital participated in this dissertation study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatments: (1) AT, which was developed by Lange and Jakubowski; (2) AT&PS, which contained assertive concepts and techniques, problem solving process and time management; or (3) ATC, which served as a control and contained issues related to professional nursing. Subjects in each group participated in six, two-hour workshops in the same period of two weeks. All subjects reported that they had not previously received assertiveness training and stress management training and were not at the time of the study undergoing any workshop or counseling. All subjects were pre-, post-, and follow-up posttested for stress, burnout and assertiveness with the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI, six subscales) and Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS), respectively. Demographic variables included: age, length of nursing experience since graduation, length of employment in the facility and the specialty area, marital status, number of children, job position and educational background. Results from the Post-training Questionnaire provided further evidence of the training efficacy and credibility of the broad-based cognitive-assertiveness training packages for professionals.

Overall, the results indicate clear support for the effectiveness of AT and AT&PS packages for treating subassertive behaviors, stress and burnout in a professional population of nurses in Taiwan, R.O.C. Speculations concerning these results as well as implications for further research are discussed. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-09, Section: B, page: 2605.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1987.

School code: 0227.