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Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses Cover

Job demands, job control, and social support as predictors of job satisfaction and burnout in Croatian palliative care nurses

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|Sep 2021

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Interaction effect of job demands and social support on exhaustion
Interaction effect of job demands and social support on exhaustion

Hierarchical regression analyses of JDCS variables and their two-way and three-way interactions as predictors of job satisfaction, exhaustion, and disengagement in palliative care nurses (N=68)

Job satisfactionExhaustionDisengagement
Predictorsβ (β)β (β)β (β)

Step 1:
Demands0.27 (0.18)0.17 (0.29)-0.06 (0.00)
Control0.38** (0.34)-0.27 (-0.32)-0.45**(-0.40**)
Social support0.29 (0.22)0.06 (0.06)-0.12 (-0.03)

R20.14*0.13*0.21***
Adj R20.10*0.09*0.17***
F (3,64)3.57*3.23*5.61**

Step 2:
Demands x Control0.02 (0.01)0.08 (0.06)0.06 (0.09)
Demands x Social support-0.32 (-0.35)0.39** (0.31)0.30 (0.42)
Control x Social support-0.28 (-0.27)0.35 (0.37)0.21 (0.18)

ΔR20.040.060.04
R20.18*0.19*0.25**
Adj R20.10*0.11*0.17**
F (6,61)2.25*2.39*3.33**

Step 3:
Demands x Control x Social support-0.08 (-0.08)-0.20 (-0.20)0.27 (0.27)

ΔR20.000.010.02
R20.180.200.26**
Adj R20.090.110.18**
F (7,60)1.922.153.08**

JDCS and occupational well-being scores by palliative care nurses, internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha), and Pearson’s correlations between variables (N=68)

VariablesMeanSDRangeα12345
JDCS variables
(1) Job demands2.230.551.05–4.000.91---
(2) Job control25.895.5410–350.82-0.57**---
(3) Social support3.000.761.00–4.000.78-0.72**0.31*---
Occupational wellbeing variables
(4) Job satisfaction3.890.602.00–5.000.81-0.160.32**0.22---
(5) Exhaustion2.270.471.25–3.250.760.28*-0.35**-0.15-0.52**---
(6) Disengagement1.950.501.00–3.370.810.28*-0.45**-0.22-0.65**0.72**
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2021-72-3556 | Journal eISSN: 1848-6312 | Journal ISSN: 0004-1254
Language: English, Croatian, Slovenian
Page range: 225 - 231
Submitted on: May 1, 2021
Accepted on: Aug 1, 2021
Published on: Sep 28, 2021
Published by: Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Ivana Tucak Junaković, Ivana Macuka, published by Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
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