Effect of the working pressure and coping style on nurses' job performance

Objective: To investigate the relationships between working pressure,coping style and job performance of clinical nurses.Methods: Six hundred nurses were investigated using the general information questionnaire,nurse working pressure scale,simple coping style scale and job performance scale,and the correlation analysis and regression analysis of which was performed.Results: The differences of the working pressure in different marital status,department and monthly income were statistically significant(P<0.05 to P<0.01).The working pressure was significantly negative correlation with the job performance(P<0.01).The working pressure was negatively correlated with the positive coping style,and significantly positive correlation with the negative coping style(P<0.01).The coping style played a regulating role in the relationship between working pressure and job performance.Conclusions: The working pressure of clinical nurses is at a moderate level,which can directly affect the job performance,and also indirectly affect the job performance through coping style.The nursing administrators can improve the work performance by alleviating the working pressure of nurses and encouraging nurses to adopt positive coping style.