The questionnaire was divided into six parts: Part one included professional and situational
related characteristics such as; gender, age, marital status, years of experience, yearly income, andworking area. Age, years of experience, and yearly incomes were measured as ratio variables.
However, gender, marital status, and working area were measured as dichotomous variables. Part two
measured organizational commitment by a 23 item index called Organizational Commitment
Questionnaire (OCQ) developed by Meyer, Allen, and Smith 41 with an estimated Cronbach’s alpha
.85 42. The participants were asked to indicate their agreement on a seven Likert scale from strongly
disagree to strongly agree. Part three measured nurses' perception of health by two items taken from
the health related items used by Dalton and Mesch 43. These items are: "The job I have now probably
affect my physical health." "The job I have now probably affects my mental health." The scales
ranged from 1 = very badly, to 5 = very positively