CONGRUENCY, OCCUPATIONAL STATUS, AND NURSES' PERCEIVED WORK ENVIRONMENT.
Contributors: Ohio State University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Psychology, Clinical.
Description: The main concern of this study was to investigate differences between congruent and incongruent management and staff nurses on their perception of their work environment. The Self Directed Search (SDS) and the Work Environment Scale (WES) were administered to 139 registered nurses employed in a community hospital. The results revealed a main effect for the occupational status variable. Neither occupational fit nor interaction effects were supported. Management nurses groups were significantly different (p < .05) from the staff groups on six of the ten subscales of the WES. In general, the results suggested that the management groups tended to perceive themselves as more involved in their work, more cohesive, more autonomous, more innovative, and as receiving more supervisor support when compared to the staff nurses groups. The findings on satisfaction scores taken from the biographical data indicated little difference between the four groups.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, Section: B, page: 0352.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0168.