Correlation between emotional intelligence, psychological resilience and sense of career successfulness in community nurses

Abstract

Objective To explore the status quo of sense of career successfulness, emotional intelligence and psychological resilience and the effects of emotional intelligence and psychological resilience on sense of career successfulness, and to provide a reference for stabilizing and managing the community nursing team. Methods Totally 380 in-service nurses were selected from a community health service center in Beijing using convenient sampling between April and May 2019. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with the self-designed questionnaire, Sense of Career Successfulness Scale (SCSS) , Schutte's Emotional Intelligence Scale-Chinese (SSEIS-C) and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) . Results A total of 380 questionnaires were distributed and 352 valid questionnaires were returned. The SCSS score of the 352 community nurses was (73.09±13.61) , their total SSEIS-C score was (78.98±12.29) , their total CD-RISC score was (88.01±14.79) . Univariate analysis results showed that different marital status, with or without children, post satisfaction, job satisfaction, monthly income satisfaction, nurse-patient relationship satisfaction, colleague relationship satisfaction, cooperation relationship satisfaction, interest in management, research or specialty affairs, occupational development, manifestation of self-worth and decision to or not to quit were the influencing factor of the professional success of community nurses (P<0.05) . Psychological resilience and emotional intelligence were significantly and positively correlated with sense of career successfulness. A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that general demographic data could account for 32.4% of the total variable of sense of career successfulness in community nurses; emotional intelligence could account for 14.4%; and psychological resilience could account for 11.7%. Conclusions The sense of career successfulness in community nurses stands at a medium level, which is correlated with multiple factors such as their research work, nurse-patient relationship satisfaction, special interest, emotional intelligence and psychological resilience. Community health services should pay attentional to these factors and improve their sense of career successfulness by enhancing their emotional intelligence and psychological resilience. Key words: Nursing staff; Community; Emotional intelligence; Psychological resilience; Sense of career successfulness