The relationship among factors of organizational justice, organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, and ease of work among Japanese nurses.

Aim: This work is aimed to create a strategy to improve the nurses' working environment.

Background: As the working-age population is expected to decline in Japan, the maintenance of the nurse workforce is important. In order to create a strategy to improve the nurses' working environment, we studied the relationship among factors of organizational justice (procedural, distributive, and interactional justices), organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, and ease of work.

Relationship among independence of daily living, human relationships, and preparation for bereavement among healthy elderly Japanese people.

Background: Given Japan's rapidly ageing society, an increasing number of elderly people live in their communities with mutual support after the death of their spouse. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationship among independence of daily living, human relationships, and preparation for bereavement.

Methods: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was given to 864 community-dwelling elderly people aged 65 and older who attended an Elderly Citizens' Welfare Study Group.