The mediating effect of job satisfaction between emotional labor and occupational well-being among clinic nurses
LIU Xiaohong
ZHANG Lan
WANG Rui
YAN Jingjing
XU Xiaofei
WU Ting
XU Ying
XU Cui
SHI Jinfen
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating effect of job satisfaction between emotional labor and occupational well-being among clinical nurses.Methods A total of 552 clinical nurses were selected as the research subjects.General information survey,Emotional Labor Strategy Scale,Nursing Job Satisfaction Scale and Occupational Well-Being Scale were used for investigation.Results The average score of natural expression,deep expression and surface expression of emotional labor among clinical nurses were(3.63±0.89),(3.40±0.93),and(3.00±1.05),respectively.The average score of nursing job satisfaction was(3.55±0.81)points,the average score of occupational well-be-ing was(3.36±0.93)points.Bivariate correlation analysis revealed significant positive associations among natural expression,job satisfaction,and occupational well-being in clinic nurse(r1=0.352,r2=0.321,r3=0.697,P＜0.01).Nursing job satisfaction played a partial mediating role between emotional labor and occupational well-being,with the mediating effect accounting for 73.37%of the total effect.Conclusion Clinical nurses demonstrate moderate occupational well-being.Nursing managers should attach importance to emotional labor on nurses'job satisfaction and occupational well-being,and improve the occupational well-being of clinical nurses by enhancing organizational support and emotional labor sense for consolidating the nursing team and promoting the development of the nursing profession.
Keywords：nurseemotional labornatural expressionjob satisfactionoccupational well-beingmediating effect
Publication Date：2025-04-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 302-306 )