The mediating role of situational motivation between psychological capital and emotional exhaustion among frontline clinical nurses
WU Chao
ZHANG Hongli
HU Mengyi
LI Lu
YUAN Weiyun
SA Zhen
LANG Hongjuan
Abstract：Objective To explore the relationship among psychological capital,situational motivation and emotional exhaustion among frontline clinical nurses.Methods A total of 1 699 frontline clinical nurses from four tertiary grade A hospitals in Xi'an were surveyed using general situation questionnaire,Psychological Capital Questionnaire,The Situational Motivation Scale and Emotional Exhaustion Scale.Results The frontline clinical nurses'psychological capital score was(107.77±12.68).The highest score among the four dimensions of situ⁃ational motivation was internal motivation(22.42±4.68),and the emotional exhaustion score was(17.72±6.46).Emotional exhaustion was negatively correlated with psychological capital and its four dimensions,internal motivation and external coordination(P<0.05).Psychological capital was positively correlated with internal motivation,identity coordination and external coordination(P<0.01),and negatively correlated with demotivation(P<0.01).The results showed that internal motivation played a partial mediating role between psychological capital and e⁃motional exhaustion of frontline clinical nurses,with an effect value of-0.084,accounting for 23.60％of the total effect.Conclusion The e⁃motional exhaustion of frontline clinical nurses is moderately high.It is necessary to give full play to the direct effect of psychological capital on emotional exhaustion and the mediating role of internal motivation,so as to provide a theoretical basis for preventing professional burnout of frontline clinical nurses,reducing staff turnover,stabilizing the talent team,and improving nursing ability and level and patient treatment quality.
Keywords：nursing staffpsychological capitalsituation-al motivationemotional exhaustionstructural equation model
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：5( 844-848 )