Industrial healthApr 2, 2019

How job satisfaction relates to sleep quality in female nurses working different shifts

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Updated Mar 20, 2026

Abstract

A total of 178 valid questionnaires were recovered from female shift-working nurses in northern Taiwan.

General job satisfaction is negatively correlated with sleep quality, as indicated by higher Global Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores.
Nurses working night shifts reported poorer sleep quality compared to those on day and evening shifts.
The type of shift moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and sleep quality.
The impact of job satisfaction on sleep quality is weaker for nurses working night shifts.

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This study was to investigate the impact of job satisfaction as the independent variable and the type of shift as the moderator variable on the sleep quality of female shift-working nurses. The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) short form and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used as evaluation tools. The subjects in the study were female shift-working nurses from teaching hospitals in northern Taiwan. A total of 178 valid questionnaires were recovered. A hierarchical multiple regression (HMR) was used to test for the moderating effect of shift type. The results demonstrated that there was a negative correlation between the total score for general job satisfaction and the Global PSQI scores. The Global PSQI scores were higher for nurses working night shifts than for those working day and evening shifts. HMR showed significant variances in the interaction between general job satisfaction of female shift-working nurses and the day/night shift as well as the evening/night shift. The type of shift had a moderating effect on the ways in which general job satisfaction impacts sleep quality. Furthermore, the moderating effect of night shift on the impact of job satisfaction on sleep quality was weaker in nurses working the night shift.

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