Workload and subjective well-being among nurses in Malaysia

• Published in: Advanced Science Letters
• Main Author: Tahir N.K.M.; Hussein N.; Samad S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Scientific Publishers 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032207916&doi=10.1166%2fasl.2017.9593&partnerID=40&md5=cdabb2d138cd8d383c85541f313b1cfd

Subjective well-being is defined as a state of individual’s evaluation towards life in regards to both cognitive and affective aspects. It is a derivation of the positive psychology field which use to cultivate the positive emotions among individuals to ensure the positive impacts in their life. Thus, the subjective well-being is vital among nurses since they involved with a large number of patients with the shortage of nurses which affect their internal feelings. Additionally, the subjective well-being reflects their performance and service outcome. Accordingly, this conceptual paper aims to propose workload as the factor which relates to the subjective well-being among staff nurses of hospitals in Malaysia. The sample of staff nurses in the hospitals which located in Peninsular Malaysia will divide into four regions which are Northern, Central, Southern and East. Additionally, the stratified random sampling will use as the sampling technique. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved.