Relationship of nurse structural empowerment, psychological empowerment and job burnout
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2013.07.024
- VernacularTitle:护士结构性授权、心理授权和工作倦怠的关系
- Author:
Lina MENG
;
Yanhui LIU
;
Ketefian SHAKE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nurse;
Structural empowerment;
Psychological empowerment;
Job burnout;
Mediating effect
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2013;22(7):649-652
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the relationship among structural empowerment,psychological empowerment and nurses' job burnout,and to provide new approach for relieving nurses' job burnout.Methods Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-Ⅱ (CWEQ-Ⅱ),Psychological Empowerment Scale (PES),and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were used to investigate 233 nurses working at three general tertiary-level hospitals in Tianjin.Results The total scores of structural empowerment,psychological empowerment,and burnout were (43.498 ±9.977),(38.871 ±7.052) and (45.489 ± 11.331),respectively.Relevant Analysis results showed that structural empowerment,psychological empowerment and nurses' job burnout had significant correlation,and the absolute value of coefficient of correlation between 0.358-0.560.The structural equation modeling results showed that fit indexes for fully mediating effect model were excellent(x2 =57.703,x2/df =1.202,GFI =0.965,AGFI =0.933,NFI =0.948,RFI =0.916,IFI =0.991,TLI =0.985,CFI =0.991,RMSEA =0.030,CN =263).Structural empowerment had a positive significant influence on psychological empowerment; structural empowerment and psychological empowerment had a negative significant influence on nurses' job burnout; psychological empowerment played a fully mediating role between structural empowerment and nurses' job burnout.Conclusion Nurse psychological empowerment has direct effect on job burnout.Nurse structrual empowerment affects job burnout via the full effects of psychological empowerment.
