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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
The effect of psychological violence (mobbing) on assertiveness level
Nezihe Ugurlu, Emine Akkeçi, Ebru Gül, Mehtap Tan
and
Ayce Cevirme
Mugla Sitki Koçman Üniversity, Turkey
Statement of the Problem
: Today the psychological violence, an important fact of working life, is explained with different
concepts such as workplace bullying and workplace violence. A combination of Mobbing which consists of a combination of
psychological factors and has negative effects on work success, is a process that is made by an employee to the other person or
persons in the workplace with disturbing, immoral, systematically harassing words and behaviors. The purpose of mobbing
is to create a systematic pressure on the person or persons in workplace forcing them to leave the job by destroying their
performance and strength power by unethical approaches.
Purpose of the study
: It is a descriptive and explanatory type research which is made to investigate the relationship between
psychological violence and assertiveness among nurses working in Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Education and Research
Hospital.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation
: Information form identifying nurses was created by the researcher. Rathus
Assertiveness Schedule and Nurses Psychological Violence (Mobbing)
Findings
: Scale is used. 43% of nurses are in the schizoid personality structure, 37% of nurses in the enterprise personality
structure and 30.5% of nurses in the aggressive personality structure were victims of psychological violence.
Significance
: In the research, very weak relation is revealed between exposure to psychological violence and assertiveness
levels. Also, it is emerged that in each case half of the nurses were being subjected to psychological violence.
Biography
Nezihe Uğurlu has completed her Psychiatric Nursing Degree, Master's Degree and Doctorate. She has been working in the Nursing Education Program. She has
conducted many studies in the field of Psychiatric Nursing.
nugurlu@mu.edu.trNezihe Ugurlu et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061