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Abstract
The concept of psychological empowerment has gained wide acceptance in both nursing theory and practice. Psychological empowerment is defined as a set of motivational cognitions shaped by a work environment and reflecting an individual’s active orientation to his or her work role it involves employees’ perception of competence, self-determination, meaning, and impact. Psychologically empowered employees are confident in their abilities, have control over their work, satisfied, feel that their job requirements are congruent with their values and beliefs, and feel that they impact organizational.
This study aimed at examining the relation between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction among nurses working in Abbassia Mental Health hospital. The study was carried out on a representative sample (100) of the nurses working in this setting. They were mostly nursing diploma nurses. Data were collected through two self – administered tools: the psychological empowerment scale with socio demographic data, and job satisfaction questionnaire.
The results showed the following:
• Nurses’ age ranged between 20 and 57 years, their experience was mostly more than 10 years (64.0%), the sample were equally distributed into male and female nurses.
• Concerning psychological empowerment, it was generally high, with (74.0%) had high total psychological empowerment.
• The highest domains of psychological empowerment were competence and meaningfulness (92.0%) followed by the impact and self-determination domains (52.0%, 56.0%) respectively.
• Regarding job satisfaction, it was generally low, with only (49.0%) of them were satisfied.
The highest satisfaction was with commitment and work relations (87.0%), while the lowest was with the physiological and safety and security needs (34.09%). Slightly more than half of the nurses (51.0%) were satisfied with all the five- level hierarchy.
• A moderate statistically significant positive correlation between nurses’ psychological empowerment scores and job satisfaction scores (r=0.484).
• Multivariate analysis showed that nurse’s age were the statistically significant positive independent predictors of the job satisfaction score.
• The study concludes that the majority of nurses in the study sample have high level of psychological empowerment, particularly in relation to the domains of competence and meaningfulness. On the contrary, half of nurses are dissatisfied with their job. The scores of nurses’ psychological empowerment and job satisfaction are closely correlated.
• Based on the study findings, it is recommended to improve both psychological empowerment and job satisfaction of nurses working in al Abbasia hospital through on- service training programs in new trends and technology in the psychiatric nursing field, reviewing the system of incentives and seeking alternatives methods for recognition of good work. More participation of nurses in decision making.