Relationships between personal factors, healthy work environments, work characteristics, with joy at work of nursing personnel in the Department of Corrections
Abstract:
The research was designed to study joy at work of nursing personnel and to determine the relationships between personal factors, healthy work environments, work characteristics with joy at work of nursing personnel in The Department of Corrections. The sample was 164 nursing personnel, randomly selected through multi-stage sampling technique. Research instruments were questionnaires consisting of four parts; personal factors, healthy work environments, work characteristics and joy at work. They were judged by a panel of experts for their validities and reliabilities. The Cronbachs alpha coefficients were 0.96, 0.95 and 0.93 respectively. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearsons product moment correlation coefficients. The major findings were as follows: 1. The joy at work of nursing personnel in The Department of Corrections was at the high level. ([mean] = 3.93, SD = 0.491) 2. Personal factors of nursing personnel in terms of age, marital status, educational level, experiment were not related to the joy at work of nursing personnel in The Department of Corrections. 3. Healthy work environments was positively related to the joy at work of nursing personnel in The Department of Corrections, at moderate level (r = 0.61) with the significance at the 0.05 level. 4. Work characteristics was positively related to the joy at work of nursing personnel in The Department of Corrections, at moderate level (r = 0.58) with the significance at the 0.05 level.