Emotional Resources Research Articles

Identifying personalized barriers for hypertension self-management from TASKS framework

ObjectiveEffective management of hypertension requires not only medical intervention but also significant patient self-management. The challenge, however, lies in the diversity of patients' personal barriers to managing their condition. The objective of this research is to identify and categorize personalized barriers to hypertension self-management using the TASKS framework (Task, Affect, Skills, Knowledge, Stress). This study aims to enhance patient-centered strategies by aligning support with each patient's specific needs, recognizing the diversity in their unique circumstances, beliefs, emotional states, knowledge levels, and access to resources. This research is based on observations from a single study focused on eight patients, which may have been a part of a larger project.ResultsThe analysis of transcripts from eight patients and the Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines revealed 69 personalized barriers. These barriers were distributed as follows: emotional barriers (49%), knowledge barriers (24%), logical barriers (17%), and resource barriers (10%). The findings highlight the significant impact of emotional and knowledge-related challenges on hypertension self-management, including difficulties in home blood pressure monitoring and the use of monitoring tools. This study emphasizes the need for tailored interventions to address these prevalent barriers and improve hypertension management outcomes.

Sustaining mental health amidst high-pressure job scenarios: a narrative review

Today’s fast-paced world presents with increased work-related demands and pressures. These pressures may overwhelm an individual’s coping ability. From recognizing the signs of stress to implementing proactive measures for self-care, we embark on a journey to promote resilience and a healthy equilibrium between professional aspirations and mental well-being. Maintaining mental health and well-being is essential to living a healthy life even in high-pressure professional contexts. Nursing is one of the most challenging and demanding professions and use their psychological and emotional resources in service of their patients as well as navigating through the ups and downs of their own lives. Workplace stress has the potential to adversely impact both the physical and mental well-being of individuals, leading to a decline in job productivity through heightened stress levels. This leaves the professionals depleted and drained. Through this article, the author tries to highlight major stressors related to nursing and some practical coping measures.

Profiles of Geriatric Syndromes and Resources in Older Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.

Objective: Older patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) are at high risk for frailty and geriatric syndromes (GSs), which modulate their individual prognosis and are therefore relevant for further management. Because few studies have evaluated the geriatric profile of older AF patients, this secondary analysis aims to further characterize the patterns of GSs and geriatric resources (GRs) in AF patients and their association with anticoagulation use. Methods: Data from 362 hospitalized patients aged 65 years and older with AF (n = 181, 77.8 ± 5.8 years, 38% female) and without AF (non-AF [NAF]; n = 181, 77.5 ± 5.9 years, 40% female) admitted to an internal medicine and nephrology ward of a large university hospital in Germany were included. All patients underwent usual care plus a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) including calculation of the Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) and collection of 17 GSs and 10 GRs. Patients were followed up by telephone 6 and 12 months after discharge to collect data on their health status. Results: The mean MPI score of 0.47 indicated an average risk of poor outcome, and patients with AF had a significantly higher MPI than those without AF (p = 0.040). After adjustment for chronological age, biological sex, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) for relevant chronic diagnoses and MPI as a proxy for biological age, AF patients had significantly more mnestic resources (63.5% vs. 33.1%, p < 0.001), a tendency for less age-appropriate living conditions (56.4% vs. 72.9%, p = 0.051) and more sensory impairment (78.5% vs. 52.5%, p < 0.001) than NAF patients. They also had a higher number of GSs (p = 0.046). AF patients on oral anticoagulants (OACs, n = 91) had less age-appropriate living conditions (48.4% vs. 64.4%, p < 0.05) and mnestic resources (36.3% vs. 54.4%, p < 0.01), but more emotional resources (80.2% vs. 65.6%, p < 0.05) and chronic pain (56% vs. 40%, p < 0.05) than patients without OACs (n = 90). Overall, mortality at 1 year was increased in patients with a higher MPI (p < 0.009, adjusted for age, sex and CIRS), with a diagnosis of AF (p = 0.007, adjusted for age, sex, CIRS and MPI), with of male sex (p = 0.008, adjusted for age, CIRS and MPI) and those with AF and treated with hemodialysis (p = 0.022, compared to AF patients without dialysis treatment). Conclusions: Patients with AF and patients with AF and OACs show differences in their multidimensional frailty degree as well as GR and GS profiles compared to patients without AF or with AF not treated with OACs. Mortality after 1 year is increased in AF patients with a higher MPI and dialysis, independently from OAC use and overall burden of chronic disease as assessed per CIRS. GRs and GSs, especially age-appropriate living conditions, emotional resources, sensory impairment and chronic pain, can be considered as factors that may modify the individual impact of frailty, underscoring the relevance of these parameters in the management of older patients.

Can the Phoenix still rise? Traumatic effect of Beirut port explosion on Lebanese people's experiences.

Mental distress and decreased functionality are highly prevalent after collective traumas. Survivors' ability to function is worsened by untreated distress and unmet needs related to job security and a sense of belonging. We aim to identify groups of people using a latent class analysis based on multiple dimensions of subjective experiences after a massive urban violent event. This cross-sectional internet-based study included 1,305 Lebanese adults 4 months after the Beirut Port explosion. Emotions, attitudes, and needs were assessed using the iCode software, a novel approach measuring explicit subjective answers and implicit reaction time to various statements. Responses revealed alarming levels of distress with 75%-80% of participants feeling anxious. Latent class analysis differentiated three groups on initial dimensions derived from the principal component analysis. The first group included those with the most intense emotional distress and intrusive thoughts. They were younger, had higher job worries, and wanted to leave the country. The second group was equally distressed, with marked intrusion and avoidance yet with faith and community resilience buffering negative emotionality. The last group was less distressed with a marked sense of community. Clustering people based on emotional experiences, needs, and resources might offer additional benefits to traditional assessments that fail to detect the variability of vulnerability to mass violence within seemingly homogeneous samples. Integrating implicit and explicit responses also helps with a rapid classification, providing insight to subjective attitudes postcollective trauma. The study mostly provides suggestions for targeted outreach to at-risk subpopulations to better foster resilience in unstable environments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Understanding the Dynamic and Episodic Nature of Technostressors and Their Effects on Cyberdeviance: A Daily Field Investigation

From a management perspective, our results first reveal the detrimental impacts of daily technostressors on the functioning of an organization and its employees. Managers should be cognizant of these consequences and create a relaxing work environment or design tools to reduce technostressors. Managers can institute more daily breaks and ensure that employees have autonomy over when to take breaks and what they do during their break time. We also encourage executives to avoid using information and communication technologies to technologically invade the lives and personal time of employees in the evening after work. Second, to reduce the incidence of daily cyberdeviance, managers should offer assistance programs to their employees to teach them how to control or manage their emotional and cognitive resources and to better cope with techno-overload and techno-invasion. Third, the moderating effect of technology self-efficacy suggests that there are added benefits to selecting and training employees with high technology self-efficacy, as doing so not only helps employees to cope with techno-overload but also enables them to regulate their immediate emotions rather than engage in daily cyberdeviance at work.

Uncovering Research Clusters in Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment: A VOSviewer Approach

Job satisfaction and organizational commitment are two key concepts that have attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners for a long time. Job satisfaction refers to how much an employee feels happy or satisfied with the work they do. The scope of work that employees do is connected to other factors, such as the work environment, as well as horizontal and vertical relationships in the workplace. On the other hand, organizational commitment refers to the employee's attachment to the organization. This study examines job satisfaction and organizational commitment in various industries using systematic Bibliographic Review. The data used is 150 articles in the Emerald database from 2019 to 2024. The keywords used in the search are "Job Satisfaction" AND "Organizational Commitment". The 150 articles were then processed using VOSviewer and then analyzed to find research maps and future research recommendations. shows that there is still an open possibility of research on variables that have not been explored much by previous studies. From the network visualization analysis, several variables that are still interesting to study include job dissatisfaction, psychological empowerment, remote workforce, social support, socio emotional resources, spiritual gain, material gain, salary satisfaction, supervisor citizenship behavior, and transparency practice. Based on overlay visualization analysis, several interesting variables to be studied include spiritual leadership, capability control, occupational strain, conscientiousness, and supervisory commitment. Meanwhile, based on the density visualization display, the variables that can still be explored include inclusive leadership, supervisory commitment, individual initiative, output control, psychological empowerment, and voluntary turnover intention. Keywords: VOSviewer, Systematic Bibliographic Review, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Human Capital Management

How Socially Avoidant Emerging Adults Process Social Feedback during Human-to-Human Interaction after Social Rejection: An Event-Related Potential Study.

Social avoidance refers to active non-participation in social activities, which is detrimental to healthy interpersonal interaction for emerging adults. Social rejection is a kind of negative social evaluation from others making people feel social pain. However, how socially avoidant emerging adults process social feedback information after experiencing social rejection has received less attention. The current study aimed to explore the differences in social interaction feedback processing after social rejection between a socially avoidant group (n = 16) and a comparison group (n = 16) in a human-to-human interaction context. Computer game tasks with two types of interaction (cooperation and competition) were used to record the event-related potentials when receiving social interaction feedback in two conditions (social rejection and control condition). The results showed that (1) the socially avoidant group had lower reward positivity amplitudes than the comparison group when receiving social feedback; (2) the socially avoidant group presented larger P300 amplitudes in the social rejection condition than in the control condition, but the comparison group did not; and (3) social rejection evoked more negative N1 amplitudes in the socially avoidant and comparison groups. The findings suggest that socially avoidant emerging adults may have flaws in reward sensitivity during interpersonal interaction, and they might also exert more attentional and emotional resources to social feedback after social rejection.

The predicting factors of chronic pain among nursing students: a national study in Iran

BackgroundNursing students are faced with a variety of challenges that demand effective cognitive and emotional resources. The physical and psychological well-being of the students plays a key part in the public health of the community. Despite the special lifestyle of nursing students, few studies have addressed chronic pain in this population. Accordingly, the present study aims to identify the predictors of chronic pain among nursing students.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted on 1,719 nursing students aged 18–42 years, between February and November 2019. Sampling was carried out in several stages. Data were collected using seven instruments, namely a demographics survey, the characteristics of chronic pain form, Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Bar-on Emotional Quotient Inventory, Academic Satisfaction Scale, and Procidano and Heller Social Support Scale. Descriptive statistics, multinomial logistic regression, and regression models were used to describe the characteristics of the pain and its predictive factors.ResultsThe average age of the participants was 22.4 ± 2.96 years. The results of univariate analysis showed that gender (P = 0.506), mother’s education (P = 0.056, P = 0.278, P = 0.278), father’s education (P = 0.817, P = 0.597, P = 0.41), place of residence (P = 0.215), depression (P = 0.501), grade point average (P = 0.488), academic satisfaction (P = 0.183) and chronic pain weren’t significantly correlated with chronic pain in nursing students. The results of the multiple logistic regression models showed that chronic pain was positively correlated with age, social support, state anxiety, and trait anxiety (OR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.02–1.12; OR = 0.95, 95% CI: 0.93–0.97; OR = 1.03, 95% CI: 1.02–1.05; and OR = 1.97, 95% CI: 0.95–1.99; respectively).ConclusionThe prevalence of chronic pain was relatively high in these students. In addition, age, social support, and anxiety could be important factors in the development or persistence of chronic pain in nursing students. The results also provided basic and essential information about the contributing factors in this area. However, consideration of factors such as referral for treatment, home medications for pain relief, and outcomes of chronic pain are suggested in future longitudinal studies.

Scientometric Analysis of Socioemotional Wealth, Innovation, and Family Businesses: Dynamics of Their Interrelationship

This study presents a scientometric analysis of the interrelationship between socioemotional wealth, innovation, and family businesses, based on 298 articles published between 1975 and 2022. Grounded in the theory of socioemotional wealth, it investigates how emotional and social resources within family businesses influence innovation and, consequently, business success. The methodology includes statistical and graphical analysis to identify publication trends, collaboration networks, and key themes. Results reveal a significant increase in recent academic production, highlighting the growing relevance of these concepts. Four thematic clusters are identified, emphasizing the importance of socioemotional wealth and innovation in the management of family businesses, providing a solid foundation for future research and business practices.

Demands and Resources of Working from Home: From Pandemic to Economic Crisis

Situated in the backdrop of Sri Lanka, this article delves into the challenges hindering work from home (WFH) for employees and explores how organisations have navigated these hurdles during the ever-evolving stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic turmoil. Employing a qualitative approach, 77 in-depth, semi-structured interviews were carried out with 46 individuals—comprising 20 employees and 26 human resources practitioners (HRPs). Some participants were interviewed multiple times, offering insights into various phases of the study. Through the lens of the job demands and resources (JD-R) framework, our analysis uncovered four key job demands impeding remote work and identified resources that have empowered employees to navigate and alleviate these challenges: (a) adjustment demands and resources, (b) work demands and resources, (c) family demands and resources, and (d) emotional demands and resources. Despite persistent challenges across stages, their manifestations were unique. Even after two years of widespread WFH practice and extensive use of resources, WFH demands endure in diverse ways. In conclusion, our findings underscore numerous resources available to HRPs, offering valuable insights to address WFH demands and fortify the success and sustainability of WFH practices.

A qualitative study of the experiences of insulin use by older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

There is a rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes among older people. This population also suffers from co-morbidity and a greater number of diabetes related complications, such as visual and cognitive impairment, which can potentially affect their ability to manage insulin regimens. Understanding the experiences of older people when they transition to insulin will help the development of healthcare interventions to enhance their diabetes outcomes, overall health and quality of life. The aims of this exploratory study were to (1) understand the experiences of older people with type 2 diabetes in relation to insulin treatment initiation and management and (2) use this understanding to consider how the insulin management support provided to older people by healthcare providers could be more tailored to their needs. A qualitative study using semi structured (remote) interviews with older people with diabetes (n = 10) and caregivers (n = 4) from the UK. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, and framework analysis was used to analyse the data. Three main themes, along with six subthemes, were generated from the study data. Participants generally felt at ease with insulin administration following training, yet some reported feelings of failure at transitioning to insulin use. Participants were also frustrated at what they perceived were insufficient resources for effective self-management, coupled with a lack of professional interest in optimising their health as older people. Some also expressed dissatisfaction regarding the brevity of their consultations, inconsistent information from different healthcare professionals and poor treatment coordination between primary and secondary care. Overall, the study emphasised that older people need better support, education and resources to help manage their insulin use. Healthcare professionals should be encouraged to adopt a more individualised approach to supporting older people that acknowledges their prior knowledge, physical and psychological capabilities and motivation for diabetes self-management. In addition, better communication between different services and greater access to specialist support is clearly needed for this older population. An integrated care pathway for insulin use in older people could be considered. This would include an assessment of the older person's needs and capacity on their initiation to insulin; targeted education and training in self-management; timely access to appropriate emotional and peer support resources; care plans developed collaboratively with patients; and individualised glucose targets that recognise the needs and preferences of the older person.

The impact of safety behavior, perceived risk, and workplace resources on COVID outcomes for U.S. Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting personnel.

Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) personnel are first responders located at airports in the United States who provide emergency response, mitigation, evacuation, and rescue of passengers and crew of aircraft at airports. The nature of their work puts ARFF personnel in close contact with travelers on a regular basis and at elevated risk for COVID-19 exposure. In this study, we focused on safety behavior, perceived risk, and workplace resources to understand COVID-19 outcomes in the early pandemic among the overlooked worker population of ARFF personnel. The goal of this study was to examine how a self-reported positive COVID test were associated with safety behavior, perceived risk, and workplace resources. Cross-sectional survey data were collected among ARFF personnel a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Regression results showed that each additional unit increase in perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 was associated with a 133% increase in the odds of testing positive for COVID-19 (OR = 2.33, p < 0.05), and with each additional unit increase in perceived severity level, the odds of getting COVID-19 decreased by 47% (OR = 0.53, p < 0.05). Infection control among first responders may be improved by providing relevant information physical and emotional resources, and support that help shape perceptions of risk and adoption of prevention behaviors.

The impact of social and emotional support on serious psychological distress among people with functional disabilities and type 2 diabetes.

To examine the impact of social and emotional support on serious psychological distress (SPD) in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and functional disabilities after controlling for socio-demographic factors and health status. Findings provide information for healthcare providers to enhance patients' psychological well-being. Data from 529 adults were obtained from the 2021 National Health Interview Survey, including those who had T2DM and also reported significant difficulty or inability to perform an activity in any of the following domains: seeing, hearing, walking or climbing stairs, communicating, remembering or concentrating, or practicing self-care. Descriptive analysis and a hierarchical regression model of SPD were used. The mean age of participants was 67.88 years old, and the mean duration of diabetes diagnosis was 16.88 years. Notably, 12.5% of individuals reported SPD. A decreased likelihood of reporting SPD occurrence was associated with older age (odds ratio (OR) = 0.95), a longer duration of T2DM diagnosis (OR = 0.97), having at least a high school education (OR = 0.54), and receiving social and emotional support. Social and emotional support likely mitigates psychological distress, suggesting that social and emotional support resources should be enhanced, especially among individuals who are younger and those more recently diagnosed with T2DM.

The Protective Role of Curiosity Behaviors in Coping with Existential Vacuum.

An existential vacuum is experienced as a kind of crisis that one can cope with using his/her strengths. The related literature suggests that the important determinants of coping with existential emptiness include positive emotional and personality resources, and among these-Curiosity Behaviors. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of curiosity as an important factor in relation to emotional resources in individuals experiencing an existential vacuum. A survey was conducted using online tools (n = 484). The hypotheses about the direct and indirect relationships between Curiosity Behaviors and existential vacuum were tested using multiple regression analyses and mediations. The study involved a sample of adult participants representing the general population. The participants completed five questionnaires, the first one focusing on Curiosity Behaviors, such as seeking out novel and challenging experiences and engagement in activities that capture one's attention (The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory), and the other tools being the Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale, the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire, the Flourishing Scale, and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale. The results indicate that Curiosity Behaviors characteristically negatively predict existential vacuum. In addition, other variables, such as Flourishing, seem to be useful in explaining the relationships between these factors. Flourishing along with Curiosity increases a sense of Meaning in Life. Our results present evidence showing the importance of Curiosity Behaviors in coping with the existential vacuum.

Making policies more effective: The differentiated impact of work-family conflict on environmental public participation

With the accelerated pace of society, work pressures and life matters deplete the public’s time, energy, and emotional resources, consequently impacting their engagement in environmental public activities. This study utilizes the data from the China Social Survey 2019 and the Chinese General Social Survey 2021 to explore the effect of work-family conflict on two types of environmental public participation (daily participation and resistance participation). The findings include: (1) Work-family conflict negatively affects daily participation and positively affects resistance participation. (2) Environmental concern strengthens the negative effect of work-family conflict on daily participation. (3) Government environmental work satisfaction strengthens the positive effect of work-family conflict on resistance participation. The current study provides clarity on the relationship between work-family conflict and environmental public participation. The authors also propose targeted policy recommendations to mitigate work-family conflict in the public sphere and promote effective environmental public participation.

MENGULIK PERAN JOB INSECURUTY YANG MEMPENGARUHI EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTIONAL PADA GEN Z DI DUNIA KERJA YANG DIMEDIASI OLEH DETERMINAN ROLE AMBIGUITY

ABSTRACT Emotional exhaustion is individual fatigue related to personal feelings and depletion of emotional resources, which refers to excessive emotional feelings due to contact with other people or work. Emotional exhaustion can be influenced by factors including job insecurity and role ambiguity. This research aims to determine the influence of job insecurity through role ambiguity which consists of unclear rules, vague responsibilities, vague expectations on emotional exhaustion at work. The sample in this research was Gen Z who worked part time, full time or freelance, amounting to 200 respondents. The data collection technique uses a list of questions such as a questionnaire and the data analysis technique uses Partial Least Square (SmartPls) to test the ten hypotheses proposed in this research. The research results show that job security directly and indirectly through the determinants of role ambiguity has a positive and significant influence on emotional exhaustion.

Assessment of predictors of satisfaction with life in pre-service teacher education students

Introduction: satisfaction with life plays a crucial role in students' academic and personal experience as it can influence their academic performance, emotional well-being, and adaptation to the higher education environment.Objective: to determine whether resilience, perceived social support, and self-esteem predict satisfaction with life in Peruvian pre-service teacher education students.Methods: a quantitative, observational, analytical, predictive, and cross-sectional study was conducted. The sample consisted of 215 students of both sexes who were administered the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale Short Form, the Social Support Perception Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale, instruments with adequate psychometric properties. Regarding statistical methods, Pearson correlation coefficient was used, followed by multiple linear regression analysis.Results: multiple regression analysis showed a good fit for the model (F=78,319; p&lt;0,05), indicating that resilience (β=0,103; p&lt;0,05), perceived social support (β=0,268; p&lt;0,05), and self-esteem (β=0,274; p&lt;0,05) explained 52 % of the total variance of the satisfaction with life variable.Conclusions: resilience, perceived social support, and self-esteem predict satisfaction with life in Peruvian pre-service teacher education students. Therefore, it is recommended to foster an institutional culture that values and promotes students' emotional well-being, providing psychological and emotional support resources and services

Чтение книг как предмет философии справедливости

The article considers the philosophy of justice as a possibility of realization of collective autocommunication. Psychoanalysis helps to enrich the philosophy of justice by linking the study of reactions to internal states and to external social situations by the concept of autocommunication. The incorporation of psychoanalytic definitions (desire) into the conceptual-categorical apparatus of economics (resource, capital) allows us to analyze the process of transition of issues of social equality and fair distribution from the field of ethics to an extended version of the social game that includes reading experience. The position of Amartya Sen, who constructs a particular field of readerly consumption that is both scenic and conducive to the accumulation of social experience rather than simply its public manifestation, is critically examined. It is suggested that reading should be seen as a desire to use a limited material or emotional resource, actualizing fantasy as a manifestation of excess and as an autocommunication, an encounter with the self as the subject of fantasization. Surplus communication expands notions of the responsibility of justice by turning the reader into a mirror of autocommunication.

Effect of compassion fatigue on emotional labor in female nurses: Moderating effect of self-compassion.

A two-stage survey design with a convenience sample. Participants were female nursing staff recruited from emergency departments, intensive care units, ward nursing units, and outpatient departments of medical centers, regional hospitals, and district hospitals in Taiwan. A total of 300 questionnaire copies in each of the first and second stages were distributed, and 272 pairs of responses were retrieved (valid response rate = 91%). The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were tested, and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with AMOS 21. The proposed hypotheses were verified using hierarchical regression conducted with SPSS version 25.0. This study revealed that compassion fatigue positively predicted surface acting (β = 0.12, p < 0.05) and negatively predicted deep acting (β = -0.18, p < 0.01) and expression of genuine emotions (β = -0.31, p < 0.01). In addition, self-compassion negatively moderates the relationships between compassion fatigue and surface acting (β = -0.12, p < 0.05), and positively moderates the relationships between compassion fatigue and expression of genuine emotions (β = 0.15, p < 0.01). To avoid excessive consumption of emotional resources, nurses with high compassion fatigue may employ surface acting by engaging in emotional labor without making an effort to adjust their feelings. Nurses need also be sympathized with, and such sympathy can come from hospitals, supervisors, colleagues, and, most crucially, the nurses themselves. Hospital executives should propose improvement strategies that can prevent the compassion fatigue on nurses, such as improving nurses' self-compassion.

Florida Doulas’ Perspectives on Their Role in Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Health Disparities

BackgroundMaternal mortality rates continue to rise in the United States. Considerable racial disparities exist, as Black women face two to three times the risks of dying from pregnancy-related complications compared with white women. Doulas have been associated with improved maternal outcomes. This study aimed to 1) investigate Florida doulas’ perspectives and influence on severe maternal morbidity/mortality and related inequities, as well as 2) identify opportunities for actionable change. The social ecological model, which acknowledges how individual, interpersonal, institutional, community, and public policy factors intersect, informed our analysis. MethodsThis qualitative study included seven online in-depth interviews and seven focus groups with doulas (N = 31) in Florida. Interview guides investigated how doulas perceive their role in the context of a) maternal morbidity and b) health disparities. ResultsDoulas associated maternal morbidity and health disparities with Black pregnant people, identifying racism as a major contributor. Doulas identified their role as one that most often intersects with the individual and interpersonal levels of the social ecological model. Doulas report providing positive social surveillance and emotional support, contributing education and resources, and championing for advocacy in health care settings. Actionable steps recommended by doulas to further mitigate health disparities include the integration of implicit bias training into doula certification programs, increasing public health funding to bolster a doula workforce that can serve racial and ethnic communities, establishing doula–hospital partnerships to improve relational communication, providing tailored resources for clients featuring representative messaging, and doulas’ continued engagement in positive social surveillance of their clients. ConclusionsDoulas perceived their role as integral to mitigating maternal morbidity and health disparities, particularly in the context of supporting and advocating for birthing persons on all levels of the social ecological model. Equitable access to doulas for low-income and/or minoritized populations may be one key strategy to improve maternal health equity.