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The Relationships among Job Stress, Burnout, Professional Commitment and Perceived Organizational Support of the Clinical Instructor

Recently years, the nursing environment changed and increased heavy work loading to the clinical instructor, and caused clinical instructors to have job stress. At this transformed process, clinical instructors are easy to have the situation of burnout, and affected their professional commitment. This study is aimed to use the view of social exchange theory to discuss the relationship among job stress, burnout, professional commitment and perceived organizational support. The hypotheories are as below:
H1¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Job Stress negatively and significantly affected Professional Commitment.
H2¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Job Stress positively and significantly affected Burnout.
H3¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Burnout negatively and significantly affected Professional Commitment.
H4¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Burnout as an mediator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between Job Stress and Professional Commitment.
H5¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Perceived Organizational Support as the moderator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between Burnout and Professional Commitment.
The samples were collected from the clinical instructors who worked at Technology universities, Technical colleges, Junior colleges which located in north, central and south of Taiwan. And used the methods of descriptive statistic, factor analysis, reliability examination, difference analysis, relative analysis, regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, the results as below:
H1¡GClinical instructors¡¦ job stress negatively and significantly affected professional commitment.
H2¡GClinical instructors¡¦ job stress positively and significantly affected burnout.
H3¡GClinical instructors¡¦ burnout negatively and significantly affected partial professional commitment.
H4¡GClinical instructors¡¦ burnout as partial mediator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between job stress and professional commitment.
H5¡GClinical instructors¡¦ perceived organizational support as partial moderator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between burnout and professional commitment.
The finding is indicated that suitable job stress could raise clinical instructor¡¦s professional commitment, especially on self-esteem; and heavy work loading increased clinical instructors¡¦ burnout, especially for high burnout situation, their affective and normative commitment will be lower; Besides, in our study, Clinical instructors¡¦ burnout as an partial mediator affected to the relationship between job stress and professional commitment, and their organizational support as a partial affected to the relationship between burnout and professional commitment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1013109-121637
Date13 October 2009
CreatorsTai, Wain-Rung
ContributorsShyh-jer Chen, Liang-Chih Huang, Jin Feng Uen
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1013109-121637
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