Workplace violence against nurses: The factors which may influence job burnout symptoms of nurses in public hospitals in China

• Autor(a) principal: Wen Yanwei
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20711
• topic: Workplace violence of nurses; Organizational injustice perception; Job burnout; Job satisfaction; Violência no trabalho dos enfermeiras; Percepção de injustiça organizacional; Burnout no trabalho; Satisfação no trabalho; Gestão de recursos humanos; Violência no trabalho; Enfermeiro; Mulher; Comportamento organizacional -- Organizational behavior; Síndrome de burnout; China

In China, many nurses suffered workplace violence in past few years. This cross-sectional (N= 116) study aim to explore the outcomes of workplace violence against nurses in Chinese public hospitals. Firstly, we hypothesized that violence against nurses would be positively related to organizational injustice perception and job burnout symptoms. Then, we assumed organizational injustice perception as a mediator between violence against nurses and their job burnout symptoms. In addition, we hypothesized that organizational injustice perception would have positive relationship with job burnout symptoms and have negative correlation with job satisfaction, and we predicted job burnout in each dimension to be the mediator between organizational injustice perception and job satisfaction. Our findings confirmed that workplace violence against nurses is likely to raise the organizational injustice perception, which by its turn will increase their job burnout symptoms of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, thus, our results revealed a partial mediation effect. Meanwhile, our results also suggested that nurses’ organizational injustice perception could increase job burnout symptoms of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and by its turn decrease their job satisfaction level, then the results revealed another partial mediation model effect. Furthermore, we discuss the limitation, practical implications and give suggestions to future research.