TABLE 5.
Overview of confirmation of hypotheses tested (cross-sectional; cl = cross-lagged confirmation as well; ns = not significant).
| Hypothesis | NL | POL | Added relationships (not hypothesized) | |
| 1 | Health is predicted by working conditions and labor relations: | Largely confirmed | Largely confirmed | – |
| - Quantitative demands = > burnout | Confirmed | Confirmed | ||
| - Emotional demands = > burnout | Not confirmed (ns) | Only cl | ||
| - Physical demands = > disability | Confirmed (cl) | Confirmed | ||
| - Quality of interpersonal relations = > burnout | Not confirmed (ns) | Not confirmed (ns) | ||
| - Psychological support = > burnout | Confirmed | Confirmed (cl) | ||
| 2 | Job satisfaction is predicted by work content: | Confirmed | Largely confirmed | Psychological support (NL and POL) |
| - Meaning of work = > satisfaction | Confirmed (cl) | Only cl | ||
| - Influence at work = > satisfaction | Confirmed | Confirmed (cl) | ||
| 3 | Institutional affective commitment is predicted by conditions of employment: | Not confirmed | Confirmed | Psychological support (POL) |
| - Opportunities for development = > commitment | Not confirmed (ns) | Confirmed | Meaning of work (NL and POL) | |
| 4 | Age impacts the relationship between working conditions and health such that the positive relationship between quantitative and emotional demands and nurses’ burnout, and the positive relationship between physical demands and nurses’ disability are stronger for older compared to younger workers: | Largely confirmed | Not confirmed | – |
| - Quantitative demands = > burnout | Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for younger nurses) | Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for younger nurses) | ||
| - Emotional demands = > burnout | Confirmed | Not confirmed (relationship is ns for older nurses) | ||
| - Physical demands = > disability | Confirmed (not cl) | Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for younger nurses) | ||
| 5 | Age impacts the relationship between labor relations and health such that the positive relationship between the quality of interpersonal relations and psychological support, on the one hand, and nurses’ burnout on the other hand, is stronger for older compared to younger workers: | Partially confirmed | Partially confirmed | – |
| - Quality of interpersonal relations = > burnout | Not confirmed (relationship is ns for both young and old) | Confirmed | ||
| - Psychological support = > burnout | Confirmed | Not confirmed (relationship is somewhat stronger for younger nurses) | ||
| 6 | Age impacts the relationship between work content and job satisfaction such that the positive relationship between meaning of work and influence at work with nurses’ job satisfaction is stronger for older compared to younger workers: - Meaning of work = > satisfaction - Influence at work = > satisfaction | Partially confirmed Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for younger nurses) Confirmed | Partially confirmed Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for younger nurses) Confirmed | Psychological support (NL and POL): - Equally strong for young and old |
| 7 | Age impacts the relationship between conditions of employment and institutional affective commitment such that the positive relationship between opportunities for development and institutional affective commitment is weaker for older workers: | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Psychological support (NL and POL): - NL: stronger for old - POL: equally strong for young and old |
| - Opportunities for development = > commitment | Not confirmed (relationship is ns for both young and old) | Not confirmed (relationship is stronger for older nurses) | Quality of interpersonal relations (POL): - Stronger for old Meaning of work (NL and POL): - stronger for young | |