THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF WORK MOTIVATION BETWEEN THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND NURSES JOB PERFORMANCE

Introduction:This study aimed to determine the level of motivation, psychosocial work environment support, and job performance. Further, it aimed to determine the relationship of motivation, psychosocial work environment, and job performance, and the mediating effect of motivation to psychosocial work environment, and job performance.

Methods: The researchers employed a quantitative-cross sectional approach involving the 245 nurses working at the government hospitals of Hail city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The 245 participantswere generated through snowball sampling. Descriptive statistics were used for the demographic profile. The path analysis using analysis of moment structures was utilized to determine the significance between psychosocial work environment, motivation, and job performance, and the mediating effect of work motivation on the psychosocial environment and job performance. 

Results:There is a high psychosocial work environment support level (x=4.70±1.050), moderate work motivation (x=3.87± 0.859) and good (33.5%) to excellent (33.5%) work performance of nurses. The psychosocial work environment support found no significant difference to motivation (p>0.029) but significant to job performance (p< 0.002).Meanwhile, the motivation on job performance found not significant (p>0.342). There is no mediating effect of motivation to psychosocial work environment support and job performance.

Conclusion:The psychosocial work environment significantly relates to job performance, however, the psychosocial environment on motivation and job performance were found not significant. Conversely, there was no mediating effect of motivation on psychosocial work environment and job performance.