The Correlation Between Psychological Capital, Intention to Leave, Work Job and Environment Satisfaction, and Political Skills Among Different Generations Nurses
NCT Number: NCT06495060
Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Conditions: Generation Gap
Interventions: OTHER: No intervention (Only observation)
Sponsor: Mackay Memorial Hospital
Sex: ALL
Age: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Enrollment: 646
Study Design: Observational Model: |Time Perspective: p
Start Date: 2024-07-10
Completion Date: 2025-04-18
Locations: Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, 104, Taiwan

Summary:
Purpose

1. To understand the current status of demographic characteristics, inclination to resign, Psychological Capital, work environment and job satisfaction, and political skills among incumbent clinical nursing staff across different generations.
2. To understand the correlation and interaction between demographic characteristics, inclination to resign, Psychological Capital, work environment and job satisfaction, and political skills among incumbent clinical nursing staff across different generations.

Expected outcomes

1. This study will provide objective and empirical data on the psychological capital, turnover intention, work environment and satisfaction, and political skills of clinical nursing personnel from different generations. By examining demographic variables, further exploration of the correlations among different attributes such as units, age, and positions (e.g., clinical nurses, nursing supervisors, specialist nurses) can be conducted. Through the research findings, the current status and needs of clinical nursing can be understood.
2. The results of this study will enable clinical nursing units in the future to implement measures to improve the psychological capital and address turnover intentions of nursing personnel from different generations and positions. Based on this objective and concrete data, relevant courses or training programs can be developed to retain excellent clinical nursing personnel.

Primary Outcome Measures: Psychological Capital, This study utilized the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) developed by scholars Luthans. It is used to measure nurses' level of psychological capital. The PCQ consists of 24 items designed to assess the level of psychological capital among nursing staff. The subscales include:Self-Efficacy Scale, Hope Scale, Resilience Scale and Optimism Scale.

The PCQ uses a 6-point Likert scale for scoring:

1 = Strongly Disagree,2 = Disagree, 3 = Somewhat Disagree, 4 = Somewhat Agree, 5 = Agree, 6 = Strongly Agree., Baseline
Secondary Outcome Measures: Intention to leave, The intention to leave scale was used to measure the frequency of nursing staff's thoughts about resigning. This single-item measure assessed oncology nurses' subjective perception of how often they had thoughts of quitting over the past week. The frequency was scored on a 1 to 5 scale:

1 = Never, 2 = Rarely, 3 = Sometimes, 4 = Often, 5 = Always., Baseline|Political skill, The Political Skill Inventory (PSI) was used to measure the level of social skills among nursing staff. This scale includes four dimensions: Social Astuteness, Networking Ability, Interpersonal Influence, Apparent Sincerity

The PSI uses a 5-point Likert scale for scoring:

1 = Strongly Disagree, 2 = Mostly Disagree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Mostly Agree, 5 = Strongly Agree., Baseline|self-actualization (Work Environment and Job Satisfaction Scale), The Work Environment and Job Satisfaction Scale, developed by scholars Rossberg et al., was used to measure the sense of self-actualization among nursing staff. This scale consists of 10 items designed to evaluate nursing staff's perceptions of their work environment. The subscales include:Self-actualization, Workload, Conflict, Stress,

The scale uses a 5-point Likert scale for scoring:

1 = Not at all, 2 = Rarely, 3 = Sometimes, 4 = Often, 5 = Always, Baseline