“…Recent literature has shown a prevalent presence of deviant work behaviours in Asian countries (Malik, Bakri, Ajmal, & Malik, 2019b;Qureshi & Hassan, 2019;Sarwar, Naseer, et al, 2019). Furthermore, nurses face family pressure, and nursing is a stressful profession in Asia, especially in Pakistan because of long duty hours and high physical demands (Sarwar, Bashir, & Karim Khan, 2019).…”