Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace as an Aspect of Horizontal Segregation in the Nursing Profession
Psychosocial Hazards in the Workplace as an Aspect of Horizontal Segregation in the Nursing Profession
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02042
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发表时间：
2018-11-16
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Sobolewski, Marek
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作者：
Kowalczuk, Krystyna;Krajewska-Kulak, Elzbieta;Sobolewski, Marek
本文的目的是评估社会心理危害作为影响男性从事护理行业的因素的影响。文章提到了与其他国家的类似统计数据相比，波兰护理人员中男性比例特别低的话题。该研究的目的是评估护理行业的社会心理危害是否构成该职业男性人数较少的一个重要因素。在本文中，社会心理危害被认为是可能对员工的心理和身体健康产生负面影响的管理和工作组织的所有方面。该研究于 2017 年 9 月至 2018 年 4 月在波德拉谢省（波兰）进行。该研究共纳入了 640 名在住院医疗机构担任护士的受访者，其中 87% 为女性，13% 为男性。用于客观评估工作压力的标准化工作设计问卷被用作研究工具。该研究由一组专家进行，他们向调查组解释了特定问题的目的和含义。随后，专家根据受访者的回答和观察，填写了调查问卷。研究结果显示，在几乎所有评估方面，受访男性对护理职业的评价比女性更为负面。女性报告的最负面方面包括危险（得分 60）、复杂性（58.3）和仓促（50.0），而男性报告的最负面方面包括仓促（70.0）、复杂性（66.7）和危险（65.0）。结论是，研究结果证实，社会心理危害可能对波兰护理行业的男性人数产生重大影响。这项研究还表明，男性护士在工作场所经历的更大的心理社会危害可能是由于执业护理人员中男性比例特别低的影响。
The purpose of this article was to assess the influence of psychosocial hazards as a factor affecting the presence of men in the nursing profession. The article refers to the topic of particularly low representation of men among nursing staff in Poland, in comparison to what similar statistics show for other countries. The aim of the study was to assess whether the psychosocial hazards in the nursing profession constitute a significant factor in the small number of men present in this occupation. In this article psychosocial hazards are considered as all the aspects of management and work organization that may negatively affect the employee's mental and physical health. The research was conducted from September 2017 to April 2018 in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (Poland). A total of 640 respondents working as nurses in inpatient health care facilities, of which 87% were women and 13% were men, were included in the study. A standardized Work Design Questionnaire for an objective assessment of work stressfulness was used as a research tool. The research has been run by a group of experts, who explained the aim and the meaning of the particular questions to the surveyed group. Afterwards, based on the answers and observations of the responders, the experts filled in the questionnaire. The results of the study show that in almost all the evaluated aspects, the nursing profession was assessed more negatively by surveyed men than women. The most negative aspects reported by women included hazards (a score of 60), complexity (58.3), and haste (50.0), while those reported by men included haste (70.0), complexity (66.7), and hazards (65.0). As a conclusion it has been noticed, that results received from the research confirm that psychosocial hazards may have significant impact on the number of men present in the nursing profession in Poland. This study also suggests that the greater psychosocial hazards experienced by male nurses in the workplace may be an effect of the particularly low representation of men among practicing nursing staff.