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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1396417
This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring Mental Health in Vulnerable Populations in Developing Countries View all 17 articles

Analysis of the current status of nurses' psychological resilience and its correlation with insomnia and negative emotions

Provisionally accepted
Ningjing Zhan Ningjing Zhan 1,2Yixuan Xu Yixuan Xu 3Jiangfeng Pu Jiangfeng Pu 4Waner Wang Waner Wang 4Xie Zhanghao Xie Zhanghao 2,3Huigen Huang Huigen Huang 2,4*
  • 1 College of nursing，Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
  • 2 Guangdong Mental Health Center, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
  • 3 Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Shantou University, Shantou, China
  • 4 School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

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    Objective:To investigate the current status of psychological resilience, insomnia and negative emotions among nurses in Guangdong Province, China. And to explore the effects of the interaction between psychological resilience and insomnia on negative emotions.:A cross-sectional survey method was used to select 1874 nurses in Guangdong Province from February 2023 to April 2023 for the survey. The Chinese version of the Psychological Resilience Scale (PRS), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21(DASS-21)were used in this study.We use SPSS 26.0 for statistical analysis.A simple effect analysis was established to analyze the association between psychological resilience, insomnia and negative emotions by using psychological resilience,insomnia and the interaction term.Results:The overall PRS and ISI scores were (59.79±17.29) and (9.83±5.97). The scores of DASS-21 each dimension were (8.19±9.02) for depression emotion ,(7.93±7.66) for anxiety emotion and (10.58±9.77) for stress emotion.The results of the interaction effect analysis indicated that psychological resilience and insomnia exhibited statistically significant differences in the between-subjects effect test for depression emotion (r2=0.136, P<0.01), anxiety emotion (r2=0.127, P<0.01), and stress emotion (r2=0.142, P<0.01).The nurses exhibited moderate levels of psychological resilience.Most of them have varying degrees of insomnia,with majority being classified as mild insomnia.Additionally,they demonstrated varying degrees of negative emotions.There was a negative correlation between psychological resilience and insomnia .Psychological resilience was negatively correlated with depression, anxiety and stress emotions. Insomnia was positively correlated with depression, anxiety and stress emotions.Furthermore, the interaction between psychological resilience and insomnia had an effect on all three dimensions of negative emotions. Consequently, hospital administrators may implement efficacious intervention strategies such as cognitive behavioural therapy and improving workplace climate in a timely manner according to the different psychological tolerance and severity of insomnia of nurses in order to reduce the occurrence of negative emotions among nurses and improve their mental health.

    Keywords: nurses1, psychological resilience2, insomnia3, negative emotions4, correlation5

    Received: 05 Mar 2024; Accepted: 05 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhan, Xu, Pu, Wang, Zhanghao and Huang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Huigen Huang, School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

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