The Predictors of the Job Stress among Female Married Hospital Nurses.

The purposes of this study were to explore the relationships among family stress, social support and job stress in female married hospital nurses. Married female nurses had to face both paid hospital work and unpaid domestic work, and double workloads might lead to more stress of female married nurses. Most studies were limited to explore the correlations of job stresses caused from jobs only, and ignored the affecting factors from family stresses. 233 hospital nurses were recruited in this study. The results showed that the family stresses (p<0.01) and working units (p=0.01) were important predictors of the Effort-Reward imbalance (high job stress). Nurses' ladder levels (p=0.004) and family stress (p=0.002) were the main factors related to married female nurses' presence of high overcommitment. Family stress, working units and nurse's ladder levels have a significant difference on job stresses among hospital married female nurses. Nurse managers may provide educational programs related to family stress reliefs to married female nurses and their husbands to alleviate their family stresses. Future studies might incorporate personalities and coping strategies to further investigate the relationships between social supports and job stresses.