Background: Nurses’ professional self and job
satisfaction directly affect their professional
practices. For this reason, it is important to find out
about their perceptions of their professional self, the
factors that affect and are affected by the
professional self, and nurses’ job satisfaction.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the
relationship between the professional self-concept
and job satisfaction of nurses working in psychiatry
clinics.
Material and Methods: The universe of this
descriptive and correlational study was the
psychiatric nurses in Turkey and its sample
comprised of 103 nurses employed in the psychiatry
clinics and polyclinics of university hospitals
randomly selected from provinces representing the
seven geographical regions in Turkey. The data
collection tools used in the study were Information
Form, Professional Self Concept Scale and Nursing
Job Satisfaction Scale in Nurses.
Results: Psychiatric nurses have a high professional
self-concept and moderate job satisfaction. There is
a statistically significant positive correlation
between the professional self-concept and job
satisfaction of nurses.
Conclusion: Professional self-concepts and job
satisfaction of psychiatric nurses are affected by
demographic characteristics and these two variables
are related to each other.
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