Job stress in the nursing profession
Gelsema, T.I.
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Job Stress in the
Nursing Profession
Cover:
Florence Nightingale in the Military Hospital at Scutari by J.A. Benwell, 1855.
Courtesy of the Florence Nightingale Museum Trust.
Gelsema, Tanya Irene
Job Stress in the Nursing Profession Doctoral dissertation Leiden University ISBN 978-90-9021917-2
Job Stress in the
Nursing Profession
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden,
op gezag van de Rector Magnificus Prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties
te verdedigen op woensdag 13 juni 2007
te klokke 15.00 uur
door
Tanya Irene Gelsema
geboren te Sassenheim
in 1976
Promotiecommissie
Promotor: Prof. dr. C.M.J.G. Maes Referent: Dr. J.F. Brosschot
Overige leden: Prof. dr. O.J.S. Buruma, LUMC Dr. M.P. van der Doef
Prof. dr. A.J.W. van der Does Prof. dr. N. Ellemers
Dr. A.L. Francke, NIVEL
The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest,
it is wholeheartedness
David Whyte ’Crossing the Unknown Sea’
ter nagedachtenis van mijn vader Edzard Sipko Gelsema 1937-2000
Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Job stress in nurses . . . 3
1.2 Occupational stress: definitions and models . . . 4
1.3 Outline of the thesis . . . 9
2 Determinants of Job Stress in the nursing Profession: a Review 13 2.1 Introduction . . . 16
2.2 Studies included in the review . . . 18
2.3 Results . . . 19
2.4 Discussion . . . 25
3 Job Stress in the Nursing Profession: The influence of Orga- nizational and Environmental Conditions and Job Characteris- tics 37 3.1 Introduction . . . 40
3.2 Methods . . . 42
3.3 Results . . . 46
3.4 Discussion . . . 51
4 A Longitudinal Study of Job Stress in the Nursing Profession:
Causes and Consequences 59
4.1 Background . . . 62
4.2 Methods . . . 65
4.3 Results . . . 68
4.4 Discussion . . . 72
5 Goal Orientation and Health and Wellbeing outcomes in Nurses 83 5.1 Introduction . . . 86
5.2 Method . . . 89
5.3 Results . . . 91
5.4 Conclusion . . . 94
6 General Discussion 101 6.1 Conclusions and discussion of results . . . 103
6.2 Theoretical considerations . . . 106
6.3 Methodological considerations . . . 107
6.4 Practical considerations . . . 109
6.5 Future research . . . 110
Summary 117
Samenvatting 123
Nawoord i
Curriculum Vitae v
