Effect of Ethical Climate Workplace on Psychological Well-Being of Nurses

Masoume Zakipour, Maryam Shabrava

Abstract


The aim of study is Effect of ethical climate workplace On Psychological well-being of nurses. This study was descriptive and correlational. The study population included nurses of medical centers in Bandar Abbas in 2015 that 54 people were taken as sample size. And sampling method is stratified multistage. Olson hospital ethical climate questionnaire and Reef psychological well-being scale - short form was used to gather the required information. Result showed that the coefficient of determination in nursing ethical climate is equal to 0.062, that able to explain 2.6% of the sample of psychological well-being. Results in detail the ethical climate model showed there is a significant positive correlation with colleagues and doctors and other aspects, are not significant relationship with psychological well-being.

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