TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors Influencing Nurse Assistants’ Job Satisfaction in Nursing Homes in Canada and Spain
T2 - A Comparison of Two Cross-Sectional Observational Studies
AU - McGilton, Katherine S.
AU - Stewart, Steven
AU - Bethell, Jennifer
AU - Chu, Charlene H.
AU - Mateos, Jose T.
AU - Pastells-Peiró, Roland
AU - Blanco-Blanco, Joan
AU - Rodriguez-Monforte, Miriam
AU - Escrig-Pinol, Astrid
AU - Gea-Sánchez, Montserrat
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Health Services Research Fund, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario, Canada (Grant # 06694), and College of Nursing of Lleida, the Council of Nursing of Catalonia, and the University of Lleida (Grant # 089352) for Catalonia. Dr. McGilton is supported by the Walter & Maria Schroeder Institute for Brain Innovation and Recovery. The sponsors of the study had no role in the study design, data collection, interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study. The corresponding author had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Objectives: To access associations between job satisfaction and supervisory support as moderated by stress. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, data collected from 591 nursing assistants in 42 nursing homes in Canada and Spain were analyzed with mixed-effects regression. Results: In both countries, stress related to residents’ behaviors was negatively associated with job satisfaction, and, in Canada, it moderated the positive association between supervisory support and job satisfaction. Stress related to family conflict issues moderated the positive association of supervisory support and job satisfaction differently in each location: in Canada, greater stress was associated with a weaker association between supervisory support and job satisfaction; in Spain, this was also observed but only when supervisory support was sufficiently weak. Discussion: Stress was associated with lower job satisfaction and moderated the association of supervisory support and job satisfaction, reinforcing the importance of supervisors supporting nursing assistants, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Objectives: To access associations between job satisfaction and supervisory support as moderated by stress. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, data collected from 591 nursing assistants in 42 nursing homes in Canada and Spain were analyzed with mixed-effects regression. Results: In both countries, stress related to residents’ behaviors was negatively associated with job satisfaction, and, in Canada, it moderated the positive association between supervisory support and job satisfaction. Stress related to family conflict issues moderated the positive association of supervisory support and job satisfaction differently in each location: in Canada, greater stress was associated with a weaker association between supervisory support and job satisfaction; in Spain, this was also observed but only when supervisory support was sufficiently weak. Discussion: Stress was associated with lower job satisfaction and moderated the association of supervisory support and job satisfaction, reinforcing the importance of supervisors supporting nursing assistants, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - job satisfaction
KW - nurses
KW - nursing assistants
KW - stress
KW - supportive supervisors
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U2 - 10.1177/0733464820980567
DO - 10.1177/0733464820980567
M3 - Article
C2 - 33353479
AN - SCOPUS:85097987472
SN - 0733-4648
VL - 41
SP - 235
EP - 244
JO - Journal of Applied Gerontology
JF - Journal of Applied Gerontology
IS - 1
ER -