Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses
Objective: Environmental psychology as a science could be useful in understanding the dissociation between the man and the environment. The aim of this study was to compare mental health, job satisfaction and well-being of nurses who work in hospital environments with different designs. Material: T...
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| author | Sodeh Tavakkoli Mohammad Mahdy Asaadi Amir H Pakpour Marzieh Hajiaghababaei |
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| description | Objective: Environmental psychology as a science could be useful in understanding the dissociation between the man and the environment. The aim of this study was to compare mental health, job satisfaction and well-being of nurses who work in hospital environments with different designs.
Material: This was a quasi-experimental study, in which 250 nurses filled out the mental health, well-being and job satisfaction questionnaires. They were categorized into 3 groups randomly. Group1 included 63 nurses who worked in an environment without any natural elements; group 2 included 100 nurses who worked in an environment with natural elements and group 3 included 87 nurses who worked in an environment without any psychological and ergonomic design. The last group was only stimulated by demonstrating visual stimulus. Data were analyzed using the ANOVA and Tukey’s pursuit statistical method.
Results: The nurses who were working in an environment without any natural elements reported significantly lower scores on mental health, well-being and job satisfaction compared to those who were working in other groups, with the exception of social functioning .Moreover, depression and anxiety were more common in nurses who were working in environments without any natural elements compared to those in the other groups (p<0.05).
Conclusions: We can increase job satisfaction, and mental health and well-being of the nurses through the use of natural design and environmental psychology indexes in hospital buildings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-08554d1ebfdb4ea4b79d91f04f3149952022-12-21T20:55:50ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Psychiatry1735-45872008-22152016-02-011034Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of NursesSodeh Tavakkoli0Mohammad Mahdy Asaadi1Amir H Pakpour2Marzieh Hajiaghababaei3Landscape Architecht, Member of IFLA ( International Federation of Landscape Architects)Department of Psychology , University of Payam-e –Noor, Tehran, IranSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences,Qazvin, IranBrain and Spinal Injury Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranObjective: Environmental psychology as a science could be useful in understanding the dissociation between the man and the environment. The aim of this study was to compare mental health, job satisfaction and well-being of nurses who work in hospital environments with different designs. Material: This was a quasi-experimental study, in which 250 nurses filled out the mental health, well-being and job satisfaction questionnaires. They were categorized into 3 groups randomly. Group1 included 63 nurses who worked in an environment without any natural elements; group 2 included 100 nurses who worked in an environment with natural elements and group 3 included 87 nurses who worked in an environment without any psychological and ergonomic design. The last group was only stimulated by demonstrating visual stimulus. Data were analyzed using the ANOVA and Tukey’s pursuit statistical method. Results: The nurses who were working in an environment without any natural elements reported significantly lower scores on mental health, well-being and job satisfaction compared to those who were working in other groups, with the exception of social functioning .Moreover, depression and anxiety were more common in nurses who were working in environments without any natural elements compared to those in the other groups (p<0.05). Conclusions: We can increase job satisfaction, and mental health and well-being of the nurses through the use of natural design and environmental psychology indexes in hospital buildings.https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/6Environmental PsychologyMental HealthJob SatisfactionWell-beingNurses |
| spellingShingle | Sodeh Tavakkoli Mohammad Mahdy Asaadi Amir H Pakpour Marzieh Hajiaghababaei Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Environmental Psychology Mental Health Job Satisfaction Well-being Nurses |
| title | Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses |
| title_full | Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses |
| title_short | Environmental Psychology Effects on Mental Health Job Satisfaction and Personal Well Being of Nurses |
| title_sort | environmental psychology effects on mental health job satisfaction and personal well being of nurses |
| topic | Environmental Psychology Mental Health Job Satisfaction Well-being Nurses |
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