Relationships between personal factors, self-efficacy, psychological empowerment, organizational support, and professional behavior of Indonesian nurses, west java province, Indonesia

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were to 1) study professional behavior and examine relationships between personal factors (educational level and working experience), self efficacy, psychological empowerment, organizational support, and professional behavior of Indonesian nurses, West Java province, Indonesia. Samples were 160 professional nurses included in this study. Study instruments were Personal factors, General Self Efficacy Scale (GSE), Perceived Organizational Support (POS), Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire (PEQ), and Professional Behavior Questionnaire (PBQ) examined content analysis by a panel of experts. The reliability with Cronbach’s alpha of GSE, POS, PEQ, and PBQ were .748, .888, .709, and .971 respectively. Data analysis were by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, and Chi-square. The study findings were as follows: 1. Professional behavior of professional nurses was at good level (x = 4.00, SD =0.47). 2. Personal factors including working experience and educational level were found: 2.1 Working experience was moderately and positively related to professional behavior at significance level of .05. (r=.499). 2.2 Educational level was moderately related to professional behavior at significance level of .05. (x2 = 20.36). 3. Organizational support was lowly and positively related to professional behavior at significance level of .05. (r=.210). 4. Psychological empowerment was moderately and positively related to professional behavior at significance level of .05. (r=.558). 5. Self efficacy was moderately and positively related to professional behavior at significance level of .05. (r=.576). The findings indicated that organizational support and psychological empowerment were positively related to professional behavior. Thus, nurse executive should support all materials for nursing practice and enhance psychological empowerment for professional nurses in order to increase professional behavior.