Gender Differences In Resilience, Coping And Quality Of Life Of Oncology Nurses In Pakistan

Abstract

This research was carried out to explore the gender differences in resilience, coping and quality of life of oncology nurses. It is evidenced through the literature that oncology nurses face different stressors because of complexity involved in their profession. This research attempts to investigate the impact of resilience and coping strategies on quality of life of nurses along with identifying nature of gender differences in each domain. A total of 300 oncology nurses (150 males and 150 females) participated in cross sectional survey based study. Trait and State Resilience Checklist, Brief Cope Scale and WHO Quality of Life scale were used to assess resilience, coping strategies and quality of life respectively. Results indicated significant gender differences in terms of coping strategies and quality of life. Moreover, resilience came out to be a strong predictor of quality of life in nurses. Findings of the study are discussed in terms of policy towards nursing stress management and coping intervention.

Psychological Well-being as a Predictor of Resilience Among University Students

“…Because both gender vary in their attributes, cognition and behavior as per their cultural demands and values (Manandhar, Hawkes, Buse, Nosratid, & Magar, 2018) . This research finds female on the advantage of scoring high on the constructs of psychological well-being and resilience that contradict with many other researches (Masood et al, 2016;Naz et al, 2017;Shaukat et al, 2021). However, the recent data of World Health Organization (2021) further broaden the present research findings and report enlarged life span of females as compared to males and females tend to live 6 to 8 years greater than males and their overall life expexctacy is more than 80 years.…”

“…They found females at better level of expressing positive emotions and maintaining positive interpersonal relationship in their surroundings as compared to males. On contrary, researches (Masood, Masud, & Mazahir, 2016;Naz et al, 2017) conducted in the context of Pakistan finds males at increased likelihood of resilience and inner strength.…”

“…Various empirical evidences (Gartland, et al, 2019;Herbert, Leung, Pittman, Floto, & Afari, 2018;Matud, López-Curbelo, & Fortes, 2019;Naz, Saeed, & Muhammad, 2017) have associated psychological well-being and resilience with multiple socio-contextual components such as gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnic group, and environmental stressors. Assessment of psychological well-being and resilience with reference to gender yield diversified findings across the world (Dasti et al, 2018;Dowthwaite, 2018;Manandhar, Hawkes, Buse, Nosratid, & Magar, 2018).…”