Career resilience and its influencing factors among nurse specialists

Abstract

Objective To investigate the career resilience and its influencing factors among nurse specialists. Methods Totally 288 nurse specialists were investigated by General Information Questionnaire, Career Resilience Scale, Core Self-Evaluations Scale and Simplified Coping Style Scale. Results The score was 37.12±4.78 for career resilience, 35.46±4.78 for core self-evaluations, 23.57±5.21 for positive coping, and 9.39±3.74 for negative coping, respectively. There were statistic difference (P<0.01) among the total score and 2 dimensions score of career resilience on different level of self-assessment of health among specialist nurses.Specialist nurses, career resilience had a obvious positive correlation with the age, nursing age, core self-evaluations, and positive coping(P<0.01). The results of multivariate linear regression analysis showed that age, self-assessment of health, positive coping and core self-evaluations entered the regression equation of career resilience. Positive coping was a partial intermediate variable of core self-evaluations and career resilience. Conclusion The level of career resilience is medium and it should be enhanced among nurse specialists. The age, self-assessment of health, positive coping and core self-evaluations are possible influencing factors of career resilience. And core self-evaluations can improve career resilience of specialist nurses via the effects of positive coping. Key words: Nurse specialists; Career resilience; Influencing factors; Cross-sectional study