MODERATING ROLE OF RESILIENCE IN ROLE-BASED STRESS AS PREDICTOR OF JOB INVOLVEMENT AMONG NURSES

Abstract

The study investigated the moderating role of resilience in role-based stress as predictor of job involvement among nurses. One hundred and thirteen (113) participants which comprised 70 females and 43 males between the ages of 24-50 years with a mean of 13.43 and standard deviation of 2.54 were selected using purposive sampling technique from University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla (27), University of Enugu Teaching Hospital, Parklane (33) and Orthopedic Hospital (30). The study was a cross-sectional survey in which Lodahl and Kejner (1965) Job involvement Scale. Kaln et al (1964) Job stress scale, and Smith et al (2008) Brief Resilience Scale, were revalidated by the researcher and were used for data collection, while hieratical moderated multiple regression was used for analysis. Three hypotheses were tested and the results revealed that; role-based stress failed to predict job involvement as there was no remarkable relationship between the variables. Resilience, also failed to predict job involvement as there was no remarkable relationship between the variables. There was no significant interaction effect among the predictor variables and the criterion variable at p<.05. As resilience failed to moderate the relationship between rolebased stress and job involvement, in view of the findings of the study the researcher recommends that