Assessment of Work-Life Balance, Job Addiction and Mental Health Status of Practicing Nigerian Nurses.
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2019
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KIU Journal of Social Sciences
Abstract
This study examined the work-life
balance, job addiction and mental health status
of nurses serving in Osun State, Nigeria. Six
hundred and fifty questionnaires were sent out,
response rate was 69.2% (450) and three
hundred and fifty-seven (55%) (357) were valid.
Hence, a total number of three hundred and
fifty-seven (357) nurses made up of male
(17.9%) and female (82.1%) was purposively
selected from various hospitals in Osun State
and responded to the Work-life balance scale
(WLB), Work addiction inventory (WAI) and
Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ).
Descriptive statistics (frequency count and
percentages) were used to describe participantsā
demographic characteristics, while inferential
statistics (simple linear regression and Pearson
moment correlation analysis) were used to test
the hypotheses.The prevalence of work-life
balance was 30% of pathological level, job
addiction at 14.8%, disease conviction
30%,irritability 50.7%, general hypochondriasis
39.5%,somatic perception 31.9%,affective
disturbance 42.6%, affective inhibition 33.6%,
denial problem 31.7% and general illness
reaction 47.1%. Work-life balance was observed
to significantly predict illness behavior and job
addiction significantly predicts illness behavior
of nurses serving in Osun state. Based on the
findings, it is recommended that a healthy work life balance should be encouraged among nurses
and stress coping skills be taught in other to
ensure a positive mental health status
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Work-life balance, Nurses, Mental health, Job addiction