Influence of Occupational Hardiness on Nurses’ Quality of Work Life

Background: Addressing occupational hardiness is essential for enhancingintensive care nurses’ job satisfaction, promoting emotional resilience, reducingburnout, and improving the ability to maintain work-life balance. Aim: Toinvestigate the influence of occupational hardiness on nurses’ quality of work life.Research design: A comparative-correlation design was utilized. Setting: Thestudy was implemented in intensive care units at Tanta University Main and KafrElsheikh General Hospitals. Subjects: All (437) intensive care nurses wereincluded in the study from both hospitals. Tools: To collect data of the present studytwo tools was used; Nurses’ Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire, and Nurses’Quality of Work Life Questionnaire. Results: 66.8% of intensive care nurses atTanta University Main Hospital and 61.5% at Kafr Elsheikh General Hospital had ahigh level of total occupational hardiness. 37.8% of intensive care nurses at Tantahad a high level, while 52.3% of nurses at Kafr El Sheikh had a low level regardingtotal quality of work life. Conclusion: There were statistically significant positivecorrelations between intensive care nurses’ occupational hardiness and quality ofwork life at both hospitals. Recommendations: The hospital management at bothhospitals need to implement strategies to enhance occupational hardiness and stressmanagement skills to improve quality of work life.