Heterogeneity of differential atmosphere perception and its relationship with organizational silence among Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study using latent profile analysis.
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Objective: To probe the heterogeneity and the influences of clinical nurses' perceptions of differential atmosphere, and to investigate the relationship between each profile of differential atmosphere perception and organizational silence.
Methods: We adopted the General Information Questionnaire, the Differential Atmosphere Scale, and the Nurses' Organizational Silence Assessment Questionnaire to survey 523 clinical nurses in three tertiary general hospitals in Shaanxi Province. And we estimated the potential categories of clinical nurses' differential atmosphere perceptions via latent profile analysis, and quantified the influences on each profile via χ2 and logistic regression analyses, and probed the differences in the organizational silence scores of individuals with three differential atmosphere perception profiles through the least significant difference (LSD) method.
Results: The differential atmosphere perception of clinical nurses was divided into "Insiders" (16.25%), "Go-betweens" (57.55%), and "Outsiders" (26.20%). Monthly income and years of working experience were the influencing factors of different categories of nurses' differential atmosphere perceptions. There was a significant difference on the total organizational silence score and on the three profiles (p < 0.001), specifically, "Outsiders" > "Go-betweens" > "Insiders."
Conclusion: This study has identified three distinct subgroups in the differential atmosphere perception of nurses and their influencing factors. The findings demonstrated the heterogeneity among the clinical nursing population. Nursing managers may take prompt and targeted measures to reduce differential atmosphere perception, so as to improve the development of the nursing team.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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