Establishment of norms for the nurse emotional intelligences scale in 3-A-grade general hospital in China
Objective To establish the norm for the emotional intelligence scale for clinical nurses from 3-A-grade general hospital in China.Methods Using the Chinese version of wong and law emotional intelligences scale as a tool,a total of 4,167 clinical nurses were selected from 3-A-grade general hospital in North China,Northeast China,East China,Central China,South China,Southwest China,and Northwest China by stratified cluster sampling method for investigation and analysis in January 2023.The mean norm,percentile norm,demarcating norm,and classifica-tion norm were established.Results The scores of self-emotion evaluation dimension,others'emotion evaluation di-mension,emotion control dimension,and emotion application dimension in our clinical nurses was(71.81±19.39)points,(67.10±19.82)points,(66.88±19.37)points,(64.28±19.16)points,and the total score of the scale was(67.52±17.15)points.The level of emotional intelligences were divided into 5 levels:Low,relatively low,medium,relatively high,and high.According to the differences of characteristics between groups,the classification norms of age,professional title,position,and working years were established respectively.Conclusion This study establishes the norms of emotional intelligences scale for clinical nurses in Chinese 3-A-grade general hospital,which can be used as a reference to evaluate the level of nurses'emotional intelligences.