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Background: In healthcare settings, particularly in intensive care units, nurses face significant stress due to the high demands of their job. This stress can impact their job satisfaction, mental health, and overall quality of life. Emotional intelligence has been identified as a crucial factor that can mitigate workplace stress and enhance job satisfaction. Moreover, work-life balance is increasingly recognized as a critical factor influencing job satisfaction in the nursing profession.
Aim: Our study aims at understanding the mediating effect of work-life balance between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction in Lebanese nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit.
Study design: This study has a cross-sectional design.
Methods: Nurses working in intensive care units of one hospital (n = 100) were asked to fill an online questionnaire which included the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Work-Life Balance Self-Assessment Scale, and Job Satisfaction Scale.
Results: Work Interference with Personal Life and Personal Life Interference with Work acted as significant mediators between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. Specifically, the direct role of emotional intelligence on job satisfaction was found to be significant, with work interference with personal life (β = .02, SE = .01, p = .001) and personal life interference with work (β = .02, SE = .01, p = .002) showing significant indirect roles. Higher emotional intelligence was directly and significantly associated with more job satisfaction (p < .01).
Conclusions: The study underscores the potential benefits of emotional intelligence training and work-life balance promotion in enhancing nurses' job satisfaction.
Relevance to clinical practice: Pending future longitudinal studies, findings cautiously imply that targeting work-life balance could help foster the positive connection between emotional intelligence and Job Satisfaction among nurses. Accordingly, healthcare administrators should prioritize policies that promote flexible scheduling, sufficient staffing levels, and mental health resources, which are essential for maintaining a balance between professional obligations Job Satisfaction and personal life.
背景：在医疗保健机构，特别是在重症监护病房，护士面临着巨大的压力，由于他们的工作高要求。这种压力会影响他们的工作满意度、心理健康和整体生活质量。情商被认为是缓解工作压力和提高工作满意度的关键因素。此外，工作与生活的平衡越来越被认为是影响护理专业工作满意度的关键因素。目的：本研究旨在了解工作生活平衡在黎巴嫩籍重症监护室护士情绪智力与工作满意度之间的中介作用。研究设计：本研究采用横断面设计。方法：对某医院重症监护室护士100名进行在线问卷调查，问卷内容包括Wong and Law情绪智力量表、工作与生活平衡自评量表和工作满意度量表。结果：工作干扰个人生活和个人生活干扰工作在情绪智力和工作满意度之间起显著中介作用。具体而言，情绪智力对工作满意度的直接作用显著，工作干扰个人生活(β =。02、se =。01, p = .001)和个人生活对工作的干扰(β =。02、se =。0.01, p = .002)，表明间接作用显著。结论：本研究强调了情绪智力培训和促进工作与生活平衡对提高护士工作满意度的潜在益处。与临床实践的相关性：在未来的纵向研究中，研究结果谨慎地表明，以工作与生活的平衡为目标可以帮助促进护士情绪智力和工作满意度之间的积极联系。因此，医疗保健管理人员应该优先考虑促进灵活的日程安排、充足的人员配备水平和心理健康资源的政策，这对于保持职业义务、工作满意度和个人生活之间的平衡至关重要。
期刊介绍：
Nursing in Critical Care is an international peer-reviewed journal covering any aspect of critical care nursing practice, research, education or management. Critical care nursing is defined as the whole spectrum of skills, knowledge and attitudes utilised by practitioners in any setting where adults or children, and their families, are experiencing acute and critical illness. Such settings encompass general and specialist hospitals, and the community. Nursing in Critical Care covers the diverse specialities of critical care nursing including surgery, medicine, cardiac, renal, neurosciences, haematology, obstetrics, accident and emergency, neonatal nursing and paediatrics.
Papers published in the journal normally fall into one of the following categories:
-research reports
-literature reviews
-developments in practice, education or management
-reflections on practice
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