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. 2020 Jul 6;8(3):199.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare8030199.

Psychological Capital Mediates the Association between Job Stress and Burnout of among Korean Psychiatric Nurses

Sooyeong Kim  1 , YoungRan Kweon  1
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Psychological Capital Mediates the Association between Job Stress and Burnout of among Korean Psychiatric Nurses

Sooyeong Kim et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

This study examined the mediating effect of psychological capital in the relationship between job stress and burnout of psychiatric nurses. The participants were 108 psychiatric nurses working in three psychiatric hospitals located in South Korea. Data were collected from 10 August to 15 September 2018 using self-report questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression by IBM SPSS 24.0 program. In addition, a bootstrapping test using the SPSS PROCESS macro was conducted to test the statistical significance of the mediating effect. There was significant correlation between job stress, psychological capital, and burnout. Psychological capital showed partial mediating effects in the relationship between job stress and burnout. Job stress explained 29.7% of the variance in burnout, and the model including job stress and psychological capital explained 49.6% of the variance in burnout. The bootstrapping showed that psychological capital was a significant sub-parameter and decreased job stress and burnout (LLCI = -0.1442, ULCI = -0.3548). These findings suggest that psychiatric nurses' burnout can be reduced by implementing various health care programs designed to increase psychological capital.

Keywords: bootstrapping; burnout; job stress; mediating effect; psychiatric nurse; psychological capital.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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