Kontakt 2025, 27(1/2025):28-33 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2025.001

The influence of glass ceiling perception on career problems in nursing in Turkey: a cross-sectional studyNursing - Original article

Seyhan Çerçi1, Nermin Uyurdağ2, *
1 Istanbul Arel University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey
2 Dicle University Ataturk Vocational School of Health Services, Diyarbakir, Turkey

Background: The related literature mentions that nurses experience various career problems in their career processes. Some of the problems are related to gender, and glass ceiling perception has an essential place among these.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the problems experienced by nurses in their career processes and the effect of glass ceiling perception on these problems.

Methods: The population of this descriptive study, conducted between May and June 2022, consisted of 3,758 nurses working in public, private, and university hospitals. The sample consisted of 407 nurses who were randomly selected. Data were collected using the Descriptive Information Form, Glass Ceiling Perception, and Career Problems in Nursing Scale. Normality tests, reliability analyses, descriptive statistical methods, comparison and correlation analyses, and simple linear regression analysis were used to analyse the data.

Results: The mean score of the Career Problems in Nursing scale of the nurses participating in the study was 84.75 ± 28.27, and the mean score of the glass ceiling perception scale was 2.80 ± 0.54, above the average. The model established between career problems in nursing and glass ceiling perception was significant and explained 20.3% of the total variance (F = 46.453; p = 0.000; R2adj = 0.203).

Conclusion: This study found that the career problems of nurses were above average, and glass ceiling perception was effective in solving these problems.

Keywords: Career problems; Glass ceiling; Nursing
Conflicts of interest:

The authors have no actual or potential conflict of interest to declare.

Received: June 14, 2024; Revised: November 6, 2024; Accepted: January 10, 2025; Prepublished online: January 16, 2025; Published: February 27, 2025  Show citation

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