TY - GEN
T1 - Relationship between acceptance of workforce diversity and mental health condition among japanese nurses
AU - Yamada, Yasuyuki
AU - Iwaasa, Takumi
AU - Ebara, Takeshi
AU - Shimizu, Teruko
AU - Mizuno, Motoki
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K16177.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Diversity management has been expected not only to progress productive nursing service, but also to promote well-being among Japanese nurses. However, Japanese conventional studies have not shown enough statistical evidences. Hence, this study examined the relationship between perception of workforce diversity and mental health condition among Japanese nurses. Through the internet research, we collected a total of 1,031 valid data (male = 217, female = 814). This study constructed eighteen original items to assess the acceptance levels of diversity elements; seniority, managerial position, clinical experience, employment history, academic background, generation, gender, nationality, role orientation, employment pattern, license, personality, health condition, family situation, work and life priorities, hometown, nursing ability and work motivation. Each diversity element was evaluated by four acceptance levels; (1) refusing diversity (Resistance), (2) ignoring diversity (Assimilation), (3) valuing diversity (Separation) and (4) utilizing diversity (Integration). Mental health condition was assessed by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12, high-stress ≧6 point). As the results of a logistic regression analysis, higher acceptance of the managerial position, personality and work and life priorities were negatively related with high-stress. Higher acceptance of the employment pattern and work motivation were positively related with high-stress. These results indicated that diversity management was one of the effective approaches to improve mental health condition among Japanese working nurses.
AB - Diversity management has been expected not only to progress productive nursing service, but also to promote well-being among Japanese nurses. However, Japanese conventional studies have not shown enough statistical evidences. Hence, this study examined the relationship between perception of workforce diversity and mental health condition among Japanese nurses. Through the internet research, we collected a total of 1,031 valid data (male = 217, female = 814). This study constructed eighteen original items to assess the acceptance levels of diversity elements; seniority, managerial position, clinical experience, employment history, academic background, generation, gender, nationality, role orientation, employment pattern, license, personality, health condition, family situation, work and life priorities, hometown, nursing ability and work motivation. Each diversity element was evaluated by four acceptance levels; (1) refusing diversity (Resistance), (2) ignoring diversity (Assimilation), (3) valuing diversity (Separation) and (4) utilizing diversity (Integration). Mental health condition was assessed by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12, high-stress ≧6 point). As the results of a logistic regression analysis, higher acceptance of the managerial position, personality and work and life priorities were negatively related with high-stress. Higher acceptance of the employment pattern and work motivation were positively related with high-stress. These results indicated that diversity management was one of the effective approaches to improve mental health condition among Japanese working nurses.
KW - Diversity management
KW - Mental health
KW - Nursing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_69
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_69
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051938705
SN - 9783319960975
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 563
EP - 567
BT - Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume I
A2 - Bagnara, Sebastiano
A2 - Fujita, Yushi
A2 - Tartaglia, Riccardo
A2 - Albolino, Sara
A2 - Alexander, Thomas
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
Y2 - 26 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -
