Meng Hsien Lee, Yii-Ching Lee, Chih-Hsuan Huang, Cheng-Feng Wu, Hsiu-Wen Hsueh, Hsin-Hung Wu
Work-life balance is essential for nurses who are in direct contact with patients in healthcare organizations. This study employs the measurement of nurses’ behaviors rather than the measurement of their perceptions to identify critical demographic variables influencing the work-life balance. A work-life balance dimension measured by a four-point frequency scale from the Chinese version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire is used to assess nurses’ behaviors in practice from a longitudinal viewpoint based on a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan. The results show that experience in organization, respondents reporting events in the past 12 months, and experience in position are three critical factors to impact nurses’ work-life balance. Moreover, “work all day without break,” “change the individual or family plan because of the work,” and “work overtime” are the most critical questions in the work-life balance that can be the targets for hospital management to enhance the balance of nurses’ work-life conditions in the hospital. © 2020, The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and Springer Nature B.V.
Medical Divisions Performance Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan; Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan; Department of Health Business Administration, Hung Kuang University, Taichung City, Taiwan; Ben Tang Cheng Ching Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan; School of Business Administration, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan City, China; Institute for Development of Cross-Strait Small and Medium Enterprise, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan City, China; Research Center of Hubei Logistics Development, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan City, China; Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan; Department of M-Commerce and Multimedia Applications, Asia University, Taichung City, Taiwan; Faculty of Education, State University of Malang, East Java, Malang, Indonesia