Spirituality, Culture and Job Satisfaction in the Holistic Assessment of Nurses' Well-Being at Work: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study.

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BACKGROUND: Nurses' well-being at work has become a global concern due to persistent stressors such as staff shortages, shift work, emotional demands and limited autonomy. Most existing studies take a deficit-centred perspective, focussing on burnout or work stress and ignoring the complexity of holistic well-being.AIM: The aim of this study was to assess nurses' levels of well-being at work across six well-being domains and explore its relationship with job satisfaction, health status and functional limitations.METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 767 nurses working in various healthcare institutions in Slovenia. The six-dimensional well-being scale for nurses, which was translated and psychometrically validated for this study, was used to assess physical, emotional, intellectual, social, occupational and spiritual well-being.RESULTS: The overall median score for nurses' well-being at work was 2.97 (on a scale of 1-5), slightly below the neutral midpoint ( = 3.00). Among the dimensions, physical ( = 3.12), emotional ( = 3.18) and spiritual ( = 3.21) were rated lowest, while social ( = 3.60) and occupational ( = 3.58) were rated highest. Nurses with long-term health conditions or activity limitations gave significantly lower scores for well-being in the physical, emotional and occupational domains (