Structural Empowerment, Psychological Empowerment and Perceived Respect of Nurses in Affiliated Hospitals of Dali University, the People’s Republic of China
Keywords:
Structural empowerment, Psychological empowerment, Perceived respect, Nurses, ChinaAbstract
Perceived respect is essential in the recruitment and retention of nurses, with structural empowerment and psychological empowerment contributing to perceived respect. The purposes of this descriptive correlational research were to examine structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, and perceived respect, and to examine the relationship between structural empowerment and perceived respect, as well as the relationship between psychological empowerment and perceived respect of nurses in Affiliated Hospitals of Dali University, the People’s Republic of China. Data were collected in two affiliated hospitals of Dali University using proportional random sampling. The sample included 352 staff nurses who had worked for at least one year in the inpatient and outpatient departments of the affiliated hospital of Dali University and the Third People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province. The instruments used for data collection were a set of questionnaires composed of three parts which included the Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ-II), the Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire (PEQ), and the measure respect scale. The validity and reliability of the instruments were tested. Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank-order correlation were employed for data analysis.
The results of this study indicated that structural empowerment as perceived by nurses was at a moderate level (= 18.62, SD = 3.94). The subjects perceived psychological empowerment was at a high level ( = 42.39, SD = 7.44). Furthermore, perceived respect was at a moderate level ( = 3.64, SD = 0.67). There was a positive correlation between structural empowerment and perceived respect (r = .26, p < .01), and there was a positive correlation between psychological empowerment and perceived respect (r = .36, p < .01).
The findings of this study can be used by nurse administrators to improve structural and psychological empowerment, to promote perceived respect, so nurses can work more effectively and have an intention to continue working at the hospital.
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