Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine the levels of psychological contracts of nurses

and the affecting factors.

Method: As a descriptive study the research was conducted in 11 public hospitals in Istanbul

between 09.05.2017 and 12.30.2017 with the participation of a total of 329 nurses. The

Introductory Information Form and the Psychological Contract Scale were used to collect data. In

the evaluation of the study data, Descriptive statistical methods, Student t Test, One way Anova

Test and Bonferroni test were used.

Results: Most (83,9%) of the nurses participated in the study were women, in the 26-35 age

group (41.9%), married (60.5%), 55.6% and undergraduate (55.6%). While 38.0% of them had 1-5

years professional experience 46.5% were working in internal services, 62.6% of them in watch/

shift mode, and 43.8% of them worked for 40-45 hours per week, Psychological Contract Scale

mean total score were found to be 2.46±0.48. The total psychological contract scores of nurses

aged 36 years and over, female, married, undergraduate nurses, nurses who were working for 16

years and longer in departments of internal medicine and surgical branches, charge nurses, those

working daytime and for 40-45 hours were found to be statistically significantly higher.

Conclusion: As a result of the research; the psychological contract level of the nurses was found

to be moderate. It was determined that the nurses’ age, gender, marital status, educational

status, duration of institutional work, position, experience, working style, weekly working hours

affect psychological contract levels.