Factors Predicting Career Attachment amongst Registered Nurses in Thailand
Keywords:
career attachment, proactive coping, job demands, job resources, registered nursesAbstract
Objective: To identify the factors capable of predicting career attachment amongst registered nurses in Thailand
Design: Predictive correlational research
Methodology: The subjects for this study were 518 registered nurses selected by multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling. All of the subjects worked for hospitals affiliated to the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Public Health, in 12 health areas. Data were collected using online questionnaires, consisting of: 1) the demographic questionnaire; 2) the proactive coping inventory; 3) the job demand questionnaire; 4) the job resources questionnaire; and 5) the career attachment questionnaire. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis using enter method.
Results: Based on the study, the subjects exhibited a high level of career attachment (mean = 4.13, SD = 1.18). The factors of age, proactive coping, strategic planning, job resources, and job demands were identified as capable of jointly predicting the subjects’ career attachment by 56.1% (R2 –adjusted = 0.561, p < 0.001).
Recommendations: It is recommended that executives of the Ministry of Public Health, administrators of the Nursing Division, and heads of a hospital’s nursing units or wards apply the study findings to developing a work-planning and proactive problem-solving skill enhancement programme and to establishing a direction for setting a policy conducive to nurses’ professional performance. Such application could serve the purpose of keeping registered nurses happy and competent in their career, strengthening their career attachment, and retaining registered nurses in the system.
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