The Correlation Study of Career Self-Efficacy, Career Barriers and Coping Strategies among Female Nursing Staff

• Main Authors: Mei-Hua Huang, 黃美華
• Other Authors: Chien-Lin Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v3634e

碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 96 === Nursing is a traditional female occupation; however, the high itinerant rate of the nursing staff has been an important issue on nursing practice all the time. The study adopts a cross-sectional correlation design with the cognitive view of the profession in order to explore the ‘career self-efficacy’, ‘career barrier’, and ‘coping strategy’ of female nurses, and to investigate the relationships between these three variables by a structured questionnaire. The research objects were female nurses from two teaching hospitals in Chiayi and Pingtung County. A total of 516 responded questionnaires were collected (67% retrieved). The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS for Windows with descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method, Pearson’s product moment correlation and stepwise regression analysis. The major research findings are as follows: First, the ‘career self-efficacy’ of the female nursing staff was considered moderate to high degree among which ‘intensity of confidence’ obtained the highest scores; ‘career barriers’ fell into moderate degree among which ‘the pressure of multiple roles’ received the highest rating. It is the lowest that ‘gender discrimination’ scored; ‘seeking assistance and support from others’ was employed most frequently. Second, personal background such as age, marital status, service seniority, professional duty, working department, specialized certificates count and in shifts or not, all had significant influence on career self-efficacy, career barrier and coping strategy. Third, except for ”perceived difficulty” in career self-efficacy and ”gender discrimination” in career barrier, the career self-efficacy had negative correlation with career barrier, which meant that the higher career self-efficacy the nurses had, the lower career barrier they perceived. The coping strategies of “rational thinking and solving problem”, “facing problem and self-adjustment”, and “seeking assistance and support from others” had positive correlation with career self-efficacy and negative correlation with career barrier. The career barrier was related to coping strategies of “delay-escape and negative adjustment”, that was to say, the higher career barrier the nurses perceived, the more often they used negative coping strategies. Fourth, for those nurses who often used positive coping strategies, the career self-efficacy is a predictive factor to career barrier; for those nurses who often used negative coping strategies, the career self-efficacy and work shift could influence the perceived career barrier. According to the findings, the researcher made some suggestions about nursing practice, nursing administration and further research.