Association of Happiness and Nursing Work Environments with Job Crafting among Hospital Nurses in South Korea

Sujin Chang, Kihye Han and Yongae Cho
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Sujin Chang: Department of Nursing, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do 13620, Korea
Kihye Han: College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Yongae Cho: College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-9

Abstract: Nurses are key professionals in healthcare sectors, whose job attitude is closely associated with patient health outcomes and safety. Job crafting describes how workers shape their tasks to find a sense of meaning and value in their work. This study aimed to examine the associations of happiness at the individual level and nursing work environments at the organizational level with job crafting among hospital nurses in Korea. This cross-sectional study analyzed survey data from 220 nurses working in four Korean hospitals. Multiple linear regression modeling was used to examine associations among the study variables. Nurses who were satisfied with their lives were significantly more likely to exhibit higher levels of job crafting (B = 0.07, p < 0.001). Nursing work environments had no significant association with nurses’ job crafting. In comparison with nurses working in general units, operating room nurses were significantly less likely to craft their job (B = −0.35, p = 0.001). Organizational support should be established to improve nurses’ happiness and job crafting. Hospitals should provide various opportunities for education and training to strengthen job crafting.

Keywords: happiness; job crafting; nurses; work environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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