Psychological Capital, Subjective Wellbeing and their Relation with Occupational Stress among Nurses Working at Tanta Mental Health Hospital

Abstract

Background: Psychiatric mental health nurses are the key members in different setting whoencounter unique situations that may bring about high levels of stress. So, building positivepsychological states among nurses with confidence to succeed at difficult tasks making apositive attribution about succeeding now and in the future. Aim: the present study aimed todetermine nurses’ psychological capital, subjective wellbeing and their relation with perceivedoccupational stress. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized in thisstudy. Setting: The study carried out at the Tanta Mental Health Hospital Subjects: Aconvenient sample of 100 nurses who are directly worked with patient. Tools: three tools wereused to collect data of this study. Psychological Capital Questionnaire, the subjectiveWellbeing Scale and Expanded Nursing stress Scale. Result: The main results revealed thatthere was a statistically significant negative correlation between psychological capital andsubjective wellbeing with expanded nursing stress. Moreover that, there was a statisticallysignificant positive correlation between nurses’ level of subjective wellbeing and their level ofpsychological capital. Conclusion: this study concluded that, psychological capital act as amediator that may have an impact on the association between nurses’ psychological well-beingand occupational stress. Recommendations: based on the findings this study suggest thatpsychiatric nurses’ stress can be reduced by implementing various health care programsdesigned to increase psychological capital and subjective wellbeing