Exploratory Study of Factors Influencing Job-Related Stress in Japanese Psychiatric Nurses

Table 3

Two-factor structure in the present study.

Item number	Content of items			M	S.D.	Communality
: overload (Cronbach’s α coefficient = 0.79); 7 items
6	Requires always thinking about job during work hours	0.71	0.05	2.94	0.78	0.51
4	Requires concentration	0.69	−0.01	3.23	0.69	0.48
3	Requires working hard	0.68	−0.04	3.17	0.73	0.46
1	Large amount of work	0.62	0.14	2.94	0.76	0.41
7	A lot of physical work	0.51	0.06	2.94	0.88	0.27
2	Not enough time to get job done	0.46	0.08	2.44	0.89	0.22
5	Complex job which requires high level of knowledge and skills	0.42	−0.02	2.81	0.78	0.17
: job environment (Cronbach’s α coefficient = 0.71); 4 items
17	Rewardable job	−0.20	0.84	2.21	0.83	0.74
16	Contents of job that suit oneself	0.07	0.80	2.32	0.74	0.65
14	Friendly atmosphere in a workgroup	0.02	0.45	2.03	0.78	0.20
10	Can express opinion of worksite policy	0.09	0.42	2.62	0.74	0.19
8	Can work at own pace	0.25	0.33	2.71	0.77	0.17
9	Can decide order and ways to do jobs	0.15	0.30	2.32	0.78	0.11
11	Requires less skill and expertise than I have	−0.02	0.29	2.30	0.70	0.08
15	Not good to workplace environments	0.11	0.28	2.58	0.96	0.09
13	Conflicts with other workgroup	0.18	0.28	2.16	0.79	0.11
12	Interpersonal conflict within a workgroup	0.10	0.24	2.63	0.76	0.07
	Factor correlation	1
		0.04	1

Factor loadings with absolute values ≥0.40 are in boldface.
: factor.
M: mean.
S.D.: standard deviation.