Effect of emotional labour on career success in nurses:the mediating role of psychological resilience
Objective To investigate current situations of emotional labour,career success and psychological resilience among the nurses and to explore the mediating role of psychological resilience between emotional labour and career success,hence to provide a reference in improvement of the sense of career success among the nurses.Methods Convenience sampling was used to select 922 clinical nurses from 15 Gade ⅡA hospitals in Hubei Province between June and July 2021.A general information questionnaire,the emotional labour scale,career success scale,and psychological resilience scale were used in the investigation.Pearson correlation was employed to analyse the correlations between emotional labour,career success and psychological resilience scores.Amos software was used to construct structural equation model to analyse the mediating effect.Results A total of 842 clinical nurses completed the survey.The total scores of career success and mental resilience of clinical nurses were(73.56±15.55)scores and(62.50±17.12)scores,respectively.In emotional labor,the surface acting dimension score was(20.46±5.92)scores.The score of deep acting dimension was(11.05±2.62),and the score of true emotion expression dimension was(11.95±3.48).Perceived career success was positively correlated with psychological resilience(r=0.593,P<0.001)Career success was negatively correlated with surface acting(r=-0.507,P<0.001).Career success was positively correlated with true emotional expression(r=0.481,P<0.001),and was positively correlated with deep acting(r=0.462,P<0.001).Psychological resilience was negatively correlated with surface acting(r=-0.452,P<0.001),positively correlated with true emotion expression(r=0.402,P<0.001),and positively correlated with deep acting(r=0.392,P<0.001).Psychological resilience plays a partial mediating role between the dimensions of emotional labor(surface acting,true emotional expression,deep acting)and career success,and the mediating effect is-0.146,0.108 and 0.112,accounting for 38.02%,32.05%and 37.21%of the total effect,respectively.Conclusion The three mensions of the emotional labor are at middle level and career success of clinical nurses is above the average level,but the psychological resilience is at a low level.In emotional labor,surface acting can directly negatively affect the ca reer success of clinical nurses,real emotion expression and deep acting can directly positively affect the career success of clinical nurses,and indirectly affect the career success of clinical nurses through the mediating effect of psychological resilience.Nursing managers should pay attention to the management of nurses'emotional labor,improve the level of psychological resilience,and then increase their sense of career success.
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