2023 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 28-37
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the nursing staff’s reactions to mental and physical stress, and the leadership of the head nurse, for ascertaining the impacts of high and low workplace stressors on the nursing staff’s work engagement mediating effects.
At 16 hospitals, 1,213 nursing staff members participated in a self-administered anonymous questionnaire survey. Multilevel correlation analysis and moderated mediation analysis were performed. There were 403 accurate answers.
In the multilevel correlation analysis, work engagement was positively correlated to head nurse leadership, and negatively correlated with individual level occupational stress. It also portrayed a negative correlation between leadership influenced by head nurse relationships and group-level occupational stress.
The relationship between variables under highly stressful conditions was estimated using a moderated mediation analysis, where the results revealed that task- and relationship-oriented leaderships mediated the work engagement of nursing staff, and influenced their responses to mental and physical stress.
