Role of Personality and Positive and Negative Affects in Coping Strategies of Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Martínez, África Martos; Jurado, María del Mar Molero; Pérez-Fuentes, María del Carmen; Martín, Ana Belén Barragán; Márquez, María del Mar Simón; Linares, José Jesús Gázquez

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682153

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“…Aside from perspective-taking, identifying the positive assets was also an engagement strategy in intensive care nurses, which was paid less attention in previous study. The factor behind this may lie in the non-confrontational personality traits in Chinese culture, which brought about positive re ection when dealing with ethical con ict [41]. We found that some of the intensive care nurses pondered the experience of ethical con ict when undergoing situational triggers.…”

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The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

Liu

Ying

Zhang

et al. 2023

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Background The critical conditions and life risk scenarios make intensive care nurses susceptible to ethical conflict. Negative consequences were recognized at both the individual level and the professional level which highly compromised the patient care and nurses’ well-being. Therefore, ethical conflict has become a major concern in nursing practice. However, the experience of coping with ethical conflict among intensive care nurses remains unclear. Aims This study aims to explore the experience of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict in China. Methods From December 2021 to February 2022, in- depth interviews with 15 intensive care nurses from five intensive care units in a tertiary general hospital in China was performed using purposive sampling. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyze the data. We applied the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research for this study. Results Two distinctive themes were found: detachment and engagement, which contained four subthemes: ignoring ethical problems in the workplace, seeking ways to express emotions, perspective-taking, and identifying positive assets. Theses coping strategies demonstrated an ongoing process with different essential features. Intensive care nurses acquired skills and experience to form more mature and well-adapted coping strategies. Conclusion This study provides a new insight into the experience of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict in clinical nursing. Intensive care nurses demonstrated differential experience of coping with ethical conflict in clinical nursing including problem-focused, emotion-focused and meaning-making strategies. These findings have implications for policymakers and nursing administrators to develop ethical education and training and supportive environment for intensive care nurses to tackle this issue.

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confidence: 83%

The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

Liu

Ying

Zhang

et al. 2023

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“…Aside from perspective-taking, identifying the positive assets was also an engagement strategy in intensive care nurses, which was paid less attention in previous studies [ 10 – 13 ]. The factor behind this may lie in the non-confrontational personality traits in Chinese culture, which brought about positive reflection when dealing with ethical conflict [ 41 ]. We found that some of the intensive care nurses pondered the experience of ethical conflict when undergoing situational triggers.…”

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The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

Liu,

Ying,

Zhang

et al. 2023

BMC Nurs

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Background The critical conditions and life risk scenarios make intensive care nurses susceptible to ethical conflict. Negative consequences were recognized at both the individual level and the professional level which highly compromised the patient care and nurses’ well-being. Therefore, ethical conflict has become a major concern in nursing practice. However, the experience of coping with ethical conflict among intensive care nurses remains unclear. Aims This study aims to explore the experience of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict in China. Methods From December 2021 to February 2022, in- depth interviews with 15 intensive care nurses from five intensive care units in a tertiary general hospital in China was performed using purposive sampling. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyze the data. We applied the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research for this study. Results Two distinctive themes were found: detachment and engagement, which contained four subthemes: ignoring ethical problems in the workplace, seeking ways to express emotions, perspective-taking, and identifying positive assets. Theses coping strategies demonstrated an ongoing process with different essential features. Conclusion This study provides a new insight into the experience of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict in clinical nursing. Intensive care nurses demonstrated differential experience of coping with ethical conflict including problem-focused, emotion-focused and meaning-making strategies. These findings have implications for policymakers and nursing administrators to develop ethical education and training and supportive environment for intensive care nurses to tackle this issue.

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“…In another study conducted by Martos Martínez et al among Spanish nurses, it was shown that effective coping with stress is affected by the subjective properties of an individual. Some individual variables, such as personality and an affective state can be regarded as stress moderators [ 13 ]. Psychological stress has been demonstrated to be associated with somatic health disorders [ 4 ].…”

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Global Self-Esteem and Stress Intensity in a Group of Polish Nurses—A Mediatory Role of a Sense of Coherence

Kupcewicz

2022

IJERPH

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(1) Owing to their resistance resources, nurses can reduce the effects of stress, increase their commitment to work and improve their functioning in the face of challenges in the workplace. The aim of this study was to determine the mediatory role of a general sense of coherence and a sense of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness correlated with global self-esteem and the perceived stress intensity in a group of Polish nurses aged 45–55 years. (2) The research using the diagnostic survey method was conducted on a group of 176 nurses (M = 49.1; SD = 3.1) working in seven hospitals located in Olsztyn (Poland). The following were used for data collection: Perceived Stress Scale - PSS-10, Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale and Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence (SOC-29) Questionnaire. (3) According to 21.02% of the nurses, their stress level at the workplace was low, 44.89% reported it was medium and 34.09% reported it was high. The self-esteem of nearly half of the nurses included in the study (48.30%) was at a medium level, 31.82% felt it was high and 19.89% felt it was low. The mediation analysis showed that a general sense of coherence and a sense of comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness have a mediator status in a correlation between global self-esteem and stress intensity. However, their mediatory role is partial. It is desirable for safe work environment promotion programmes to reinforce nurses’ personal resources, which can be helpful in coping with stressors.

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Role of Personality and Positive and Negative Affects in Coping Strategies of Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

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The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

The experiences of intensive care nurses coping with ethical conflict: a qualitative descriptive study

Global Self-Esteem and Stress Intensity in a Group of Polish Nurses—A Mediatory Role of a Sense of Coherence

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