OBJECTIVE: In this study, it was aimed to find out if psychological contract perception of physicians and nurses is different or not.
METHODS: The study has been cross sectionaly contucted from May to June 2010, in a 1200 bed education and research hospital in Ankara. We aimed at reaching all of the physicians and nurses without any sampling. A questionnaire method was used for data collection. Out of 646 surveys given out, we collected 413. To measure psychological contract perception of workers, Psychological Contract Scale with the 17 items developed by Millward and Hopkins.
RESULTS: The reliability analysis of the Scale showed that Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the transactional contract dimension is 0,66, and for the relational contract dimension is 0,71. Whereas the univarite analysis showed that differences between transactional contract perception of physicians and nurses were significant multivarite variance analysis showed that differences between transactional (F=1.38, p=0.241) and relational (F=3.01, p=0.084) contract perception of physicians and nurses were not significant, and their perception related to both dimensions were affected only by their educational level (p
Key words: Psychological contract, transactional contract, relational contract, health workers, physician, nurse. Article Language: Turkish English
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