Mental health risks among nurses under abusive supervision: the moderating roles of job role ambiguity and patients’ lack of reciprocity

International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Hui Wang²  Jun Wang¹  Zhuo Rachel Han²  Haiwan Wang¹  Jing Qian¹ 

[1] Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

关键词: Patient reciprocity;    Role ambiguity;    Abusive supervision;    Mental health;   

Others  :  1209210
DOI  :  10.1186/s13033-015-0014-x

 received in 2015-02-12, accepted in 2015-05-18,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

While the nursing profession has been associated with mental health problems and the research into the antecedents of mental health has steadily grown, the relationship between abusive supervision and mental health issues of anxiety and depression remains largely unknown.

Aim

This study aims to examine the relationship between abusive supervision and mental health problems. And we also aim to investigate whether this relationship is moderated by role ambiguity and the patients’ lack of reciprocity.

Methods

A total of 227 frontline nurses from two public hospitals completed the survey questionnaire.

Results

(1) Abusive supervision was positively associated with poor mental health; (2) the positive relationship was moderated by nurses’ perceived role ambiguity in such a way that the relationship was stronger when the perceived role ambiguity is high; (3) the positive relationship was moderated by the patients’ lack of reciprocity in such a way that the relationship was stronger when patients’ lack of reciprocity was high.

Conclusions

To conclude, the present study showed that abusive supervision was positively associated with mental health problems of anxiety and depression among samples of Chinese nurses. Findings of this study also highlighted that this relationship was contingent upon perceived role ambiguity and patients’ reciprocity.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Qian et al.

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