Occupational Stress and Psychological Well-Being Among Nurses: Mediating Role of Mindfulness

Abstract

The purpose of the study to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and mindfulness on psychological wellbeing among nurses. Correlational research design was used to conduct the study. A sample of 250 nurses both male (n=106) and females (n=144) aged between 25-45 years (M=34.46,SD=7.27), were selected from different public and private hospitals of twin cities, by using non-probability purposive sampling. Self-report measures of occupational stress scale (Malik et al., 2017), mindfulness attention awareness scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and Psychological wellbeing (Ryff in 1989) were used to assess the research variables. The result of Pearson product moment correlation revealed a significant positive association between mindfulness and psychological wellbeing among nurses, while negative association between occupational stress and psychological wellbeing among nurses. The result ofmediation analysis showed mindfulness to partially mediate the relationship between occupational stress and psychological wellbeing. Furthermore there were significant gender and department differences between mindfulness and psychological wellbeing. However no gender and departments differences were found across occupational stress.