Abstract
Recurring shortages of nursing peoplepower in recent Korean society have impacted nursing organizations with burnout accounting for a major part of nursing staff turnover. Thus, we studied the associations between workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support and whether they predict nursing burnout. We used hierarchical regression analysis to observe changes in influencing factors by sequentially entering general traits, workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support from 166 clinical nurses at two hospitals. The analysis showed that being female (β = 0.18), working three shifts (β = 0.40), workplace bullying (β = 0.24), and positive psychological capital (β = −0.28) were predictors of burnout (F = 11.25, p < 0.001), explaining 44.5% of the variance. An analysis of the correlations between burnout, workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support revealed that workplace bullying was positively correlated with burnout (r = 0.36, p < 0.001), and positive psychological capital (r = −0.49, p < 0.001) and social support (r = −0.37, p < 0.001) were negatively correlated with burnout. Thus, the higher positive psychological capital within an organization, the lower the level of burnout, suggesting that organizations should consider education programs to promote positive psychological capital. In addition, healthy organizational culture should be promoted by monitoring workplace bullying.
Highlights
Published: 4 November 2021Recurring shortages of nursing peoplepower in recent Korean society have impacted nursing organizations with burnout accounting for a major part of nursing staff turnover [1].Burnout is defined as a physical, mental, and emotional syndrome that includes a negative self-concept and working attitude and loss of interest in patients and is experienced by staff members under stress due to frequent human relationships for an extended period [2]. the factors related to the burnout of nurses vary, violence in the workplace has been highlighted in recent studies, where a significant correlation of burnout with bullying in the workplace was shown [3,4]
Based on the above review, we identified four key areas in this study: (1) identifying the degree of burnout in relation to the demographical characteristics of Korean clinical nurses, (2) examining the level of burnout, workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support among Korean clinical nurses, (3) analyzing the correlations between burnout and bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support, and (4) examining the level to which burnout is predicted by bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support among Korean clinical nurses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among burnout, positive psychological capital, and social support, which were identified as important factors of burnout in nursing organizations
Summary
Published: 4 November 2021Recurring shortages of nursing peoplepower in recent Korean society have impacted nursing organizations with burnout accounting for a major part of nursing staff turnover [1].Burnout is defined as a physical, mental, and emotional syndrome that includes a negative self-concept and working attitude and loss of interest in patients and is experienced by staff members under stress due to frequent human relationships for an extended period [2]. the factors related to the burnout of nurses vary, violence in the workplace has been highlighted in recent studies, where a significant correlation of burnout with bullying in the workplace was shown [3,4]. Recurring shortages of nursing peoplepower in recent Korean society have impacted nursing organizations with burnout accounting for a major part of nursing staff turnover [1]. Workplace bullying entails repeated emotional and physical suffering that persists for more than 6 months, either daily or weekly, from colleagues or supervisors at work. It can be seen as a serious form of interpersonal conflict [5]. It refers to negative actions such as constant criticism and humiliation in the workplace, suggestions encouraging resignation, excessive monitoring of work, excessive workload, and sudden anger [6]
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