The relationship between nurses'perceived social support and loneliness:a study on the moderating role of psychological flexi-bility
YANG Yingying
REN Feng
ZHANG Quanying
WANG Lifang
LI Xue
LIU Yun
JIA Guanhua
Abstract：Objective To explore the correlation between nurses'psychological flexibility,perceived social support and loneliness,and to analyze the mediating effect of psychological flexibility between perceived social support and loneliness.Methods A total of 1 079 nurses from a tertiary hospital in He'nan Province were investigated with the general information questionnaire,Perceived Social Support Scale,Chi⁃nese Version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-Ⅱ,Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire⁃Fusion and University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale⁃6.Results The scores of nurses'perceived social support,psychological flexibility and loneliness were(59.84±11.17),(56.93±16.77)and(13.97±3.64),respectively.Nurses'perceived social support was negatively correlated with psychological flexibility and loneliness(r1=-0.322,r2=-0.407,P<0.01),and psychological flexibility was positively correlated with loneliness(r=0.541,P<0.01).Me⁃diating effect analysis showed that the total indirect effect value of psychological flexibility between nurses'perceived social support and lone⁃liness was-0.158,accounting for 38.82％of the total effect and the effect values of empirical avoidance and cognitive fusion were-0.116 and-0.042,accounting for 28.50％and 10.32％of the total effect,respectively.Conclusion The loneliness of nurses needs to be improved.Per⁃ceived social support is closely related to nurses'loneliness,and psychological flexibility plays a partial mediating role between perceived so⁃cial support and nurses'loneliness.Nursing managers can alleviate nurses'loneliness by improving their psychological flexibility.
Keywords：nurselonelinessperceived social supportpsychological flexibilitymediating effect
Publication Date：2024-10-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 839-843,864 )