THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB STRESS, FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION AND RESPONSIBILITY WITH JOB PERFORMANCE IN HOSPITAL NURSES IN BEHBAHAN CITY

Considering the importance of nursing practice in increasing the quality of care
and treatment of patients and the importance of paying attention to some effective factors this study
aimed to investigate the relationship between job stress, fear of negative evaluation and accountability
with job performance of nurses in hospitals in Behbahan city.
Materials & Methods: For this purpose 208 participants from all hospital nurses in Behbahan city (434),
were selected through the multistage random sampling method. The instruments used in this study were
the Gray-Toft and Anderson nursing stress scale(1981), Leary brief fear of negative evaluation
scale(1983), Gough responsibility inventory (1987), and Paterson job performance questionnaire(1970).
To analyze data, descriptive statistics (maximum and minimum, average and standard deviation),
correlation simple, and multiple regression were used.
Results: Results obtained in this study showed that there was a negative and meaningful relationship
between job stress with job performance (p<0.01, r= - 0.354), and between fear of negative evaluation
with job performance (p<0.01, r= - 0.285). Also, there was a positive and meaningful relationship
between responsibility with job performance (p<0.01, r= 0.251). Results obtained from multiple
regression showed that among the predictor variables, based on β coefficients, job stress (p<0.01,
β=-0.152) is considered to be the best predictor of job performance