CORRELATION OF SELF-CONTROL AND BULLYING TENDENCIES OF NURSES

• Main Author: Ngestiwijati F.N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 2019-07-01
• Series: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences
• Subjects: Self control; bullying; nurse; public service
• Online Access: https://rjoas.com/issue-2019-07/article_26.pdf

For a nurse, caring for patients is a job that not only requires the ability to care for but also good relations between nurses and patients in order to assist patients in overcoming illness. However, patients occasionally require attention or care from a nurse while the patient's complaint and the limited number of nurses can make nurses lose self-control to allow the occurrence of verbal aggressive action to harm another or bullying. Therefore, this study aims to determine the correlation of self-control and bullying tendencies of nurses. Bullying is a deliberate act of aggression with the intent to cause physical or psychological suffering on another individual. Self-control is an integrative individual conducted to its environment. Based on the description above, the study examined how self-control related to bullying tendencies to nurses. A total of 83 participants, the nurses who served in the basic ward. The sampling technique using saturated sampling technique in which all members of the population is used as a sample. The data was collected using survey method by Bullying scale consisting of 32 items and Self-Control scale consists of 40 items. Based on data analysis using Pearson Product Moment the results obtained are there is a correlation between self-control and bullying tendencies on nurses. Therefore, then the higher the self-control, the lower the tendency of bullying.