Job leaving intentions and occupation-related beliefs amongst preregistered dental nurses in Scotland: the mediating role of work engagement and personal accomplishment

TY - JOUR

T1 - Job leaving intentions and occupation-related beliefs amongst preregistered dental nurses in Scotland

T2 - the mediating role of work engagement and personal accomplishment

AU - Forbes, Gillian

AU - Freeman, Ruth

AU - McCombes, Wendy

AU - Humphris, Gerry

N1 - © 2013 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

PY - 2014/2

Y1 - 2014/2

N2 - OBJECTIVES: To identify the job resource beliefs of preregistration dental nurses and subsequently investigate their relationship with work engagement, personal accomplishment and intention to leave amongst this occupational group in Scotland. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey design was used. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Personal accomplishment (a subscale of Maslach Burnout Inventory) and author-developed questions for job resource beliefs and intention to leave were the measuring instruments used. RESULTS: Two hundred and thirty-one dental nurses participated (82% response rate). Mean age was 25 and mean job tenure was 17.5 months. The job resource belief most valued was 'good working relationship'. A multiple mediated path analytical model was explored. Work engagement adjusted for job resource beliefs was very strongly negatively associated with intention to leave (-0.93). There was an indirect relationship between job resource beliefs and intention to leave (-0.28) mediated via work engagement and personal accomplishment. CONCLUSIONS: Dental nurses under training held job resource beliefs about their profession that were associated with work engagement, personal accomplishment and their stability of remaining in the job.

AB - OBJECTIVES: To identify the job resource beliefs of preregistration dental nurses and subsequently investigate their relationship with work engagement, personal accomplishment and intention to leave amongst this occupational group in Scotland. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey design was used. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Personal accomplishment (a subscale of Maslach Burnout Inventory) and author-developed questions for job resource beliefs and intention to leave were the measuring instruments used. RESULTS: Two hundred and thirty-one dental nurses participated (82% response rate). Mean age was 25 and mean job tenure was 17.5 months. The job resource belief most valued was 'good working relationship'. A multiple mediated path analytical model was explored. Work engagement adjusted for job resource beliefs was very strongly negatively associated with intention to leave (-0.93). There was an indirect relationship between job resource beliefs and intention to leave (-0.28) mediated via work engagement and personal accomplishment. CONCLUSIONS: Dental nurses under training held job resource beliefs about their profession that were associated with work engagement, personal accomplishment and their stability of remaining in the job.

KW - Beliefs

KW - Dental nurses

KW - intentions to leave

KW - Path analysis

KW - Registration

KW - work engagement

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U2 - 10.1111/cdoe.12042

DO - 10.1111/cdoe.12042

M3 - Article

C2 - 23383961

SN - 1600-0528

VL - 42

SP - 11

EP - 19

JO - Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

JF - Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

IS - 1

ER -