Abstract
There has been some research conducted regarding nurses’ career success aimed at exploring its influencing factors, but there is no research on the mechanism of self-identity on the career success of infection control nurses. In order to further explore the formation mechanism of career success of nurses, we conducted our study using the Kaleidoscope Career Model to explore the chain-mediating effects of cognitive emotion regulation and social support between self-identity and career success. Five hundred forty-seven infection control nurses from nine different hospitals participated in the study and completed questionnaires on the self-identity, cognitive emotion regulation, social support, and career success scales. The results from structural equation modeling reveal that self-identity has a positive effect on positive emotion regulation and social support and a negative impact on negative emotion regulation. Positive (negative) emotion regulation has a positive (negative) effect on social support. All antecedents have a positive impact on career success except negative emotion regulation, which has a negative one. Bootstrap analysis shows that the relationship between self-identity and career success is partially mediated by the chain of cognitive emotion regulation and social support. Overall, our research sheds light on the mechanism of self-identity on career success of nurses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Highlights
Modern society is widely intertwined, but the development of the transportation industry and subsequent economic and cultural exchanges helped speed up the spread of diseases (Lee et al, 2019)
The results show that self-identity is positively correlated with positive cognitive emotion regulation (r = 0.228, p < 0.01), social support (r = 0.496, p < 0.01), and career success (r = 0.402, p < 0.01)
Negative cognitive emotion regulation is negatively correlated with selfidentity (r = −0.471, p < 0.01), social support (r = −0.334, p < 0.01), and career success (r = −0.181, p < 0.01)
Summary
Modern society is widely intertwined, but the development of the transportation industry and subsequent economic and cultural exchanges helped speed up the spread of diseases (Lee et al, 2019). The Chain-Mediating Effects profession, infection control nurses who specialize in preventing and treating infectious diseases need to master more medical knowledge and strict operating procedures for self-protection than other nurses (Stirling et al, 2004). They treat infectious patients, and predict infectious diseases and report to the public in a timely manner (El-Bahnasawy et al, 2014; Wood et al, 2019). Improving the career success of infectious disease nurses is of great importance and is helpful to promote the development of infectious disease nursing and public health
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