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      The relationship between psychiatric nurses’ perceived organizational support and job burnout: Mediating role of psychological capital

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          Abstract

          Background

          Psychiatric nurses need to keep close contact with patients suffering from mental illness. Because of the special nature of their profession, there is an increasing incidence of job burnout among psychiatric nurses.

          Aim

          This study examined the relationship between psychiatric nurses’ perceived organizational support, job burnout, and psychological capital. It also investigated the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between their perceived organizational support and job burnout.

          Methods

          A total of 916 psychiatric nurses were recruited from 6 grade-III mental facilities in Shandong Province using the stratified sampling approach. Their data were collected and examined using a general demographic data questionnaire, The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Perceived Organizational Support Scale, and the Psychological Capital Questionnaire.

          Results

          The total score of job burnout was 53.71 ± 16.37. Specifically, 73.69% of the nurses had moderate to severe emotional exhaustion, 76.75% had moderate to severe job burnout pertaining to depersonalization, and 98.80% had moderate to severe job burnout pertaining to personal accomplishment. Spearman’s correlation analysis showed that both psychological capital ( r = −0.35, p < 0.01) and perceived organizational support ( r = −0.31, p < 0.01) were adversely related to job burnout. Additionally, psychological capital somewhat mediated the relationship between perceived organizational support and job burnout. Its mediating impact accounted for 33.20% of the overall effect.

          Conclusion

          This study’s participants had a moderate to severe level of job burnout. However, organizational support and psychological capital can be crucial in alleviating this problem among psychiatric nurses. Therefore, nursing managers and medical institutions should undertake timely and positive interventions to improve psychiatric nurses’ mental health and prevent job burnout. While exploring the impact of organizational support and psychological capital on job burnout, future studies should consider other effective influencing factors, and the relationship between the different factors should be explored in depth. This would provide a basis for developing a job burnout prevention mechanism.

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              Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature.

              The authors reviewed more than 70 studies concerning employees' general belief that their work organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (perceived organizational support; POS). A meta-analysis indicated that 3 major categories of beneficial treatment received by employees (i.e., fairness, supervisor support, and organizational rewards and favorable job conditions) were associated with POS. POS, in turn, was related to outcomes favorable to employees (e.g., job satisfaction, positive mood) and the organization (e.g., affective commitment, performance, and lessened withdrawal behavior). These relationships depended on processes assumed by organizational support theory: employees' belief that the organization's actions were discretionary, feeling of obligation to aid the organization, fulfillment of socioemotional needs, and performance-reward expectancies.
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                Contributors
                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                21 February 2023
                2023
                : 14
                : 1099687
                Affiliations
                [1] 1School of Nursing, Weifang Medical University , Weifang, China
                [2] 2Southampton Business School, University of Southampton , Southampton, United Kingdom
                [3] 3Department of Infection Management, Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University , Jinan, China
                [4] 4School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University , Weifang, China
                [5] 5Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University , Jinan, China
                Author notes

                Edited by: Massimiliano Barattucci, University of Bergamo, Italy

                Reviewed by: Juan Du, The Fourth Military Medical University, China; Mohsen Khosravi, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran; Elsa Vitale, Bari Local Health Authority, Italy

                *Correspondence: Qinghua Lu, 1172869296@ 123456qq.com

                These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

                This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1099687
                9989200
                36895741
                2f26d4d5-4260-476b-aaad-0109b658e8f0
                Copyright © 2023 Tang, Wang, Zhou, Wang, Zhang and Lu.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 27 November 2022
                : 06 February 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 4, Equations: 0, References: 67, Pages: 12, Words: 9262
                Funding
                Funded by: Shandong Medical and Health Science and Technology Development Plan Project
                Award ID: 2018WS296
                Categories
                Psychology
                Original Research

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                job burnout,psychiatric nurses,perceived organizational support,psychological capital,intermediary effect

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