AUTHOR=Abualruz Hasan , Rayan Ahmad , Al-Ghabeesh Suhair , Fawaz Mirna , Jaafeer Rayan , Qutami Batool , Alyami Hanan 

TITLE=The role of psychological factors on improving work engagement among nurses

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=15

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1419855

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1419855

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Background</title><p>Work engagement is affected by many psychological variables including emotional intelligence, psychological empowerment, and resilience that are not well-studied among nurses.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Purpose</title><p>This study aims to examine the impact of emotional intelligence on the work engagement of critical care nurses, and the mediating role of resilience and psychological empowerment.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Methods</title><p>A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted in this study among 150 critical care nurses at one university hospital in Saudi Arabia. Independent <italic>t</italic>-test and correlational analysis were used to assess relationships between study variables. A multi-step regression model was used to assess the mediatory effect.</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Results</title><p>The results showed that a statistically significant positive association exists between each of the study variables (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.01). The regression model showed that higher resilience (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) and psychological empowerment (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) predicted higher work engagement. The model predicted 33.3% of the changes in work engagement scores among critical care nurses.</p></sec><sec id="sec5"><title>Conclusion</title><p>To enhance work performance and quality of care rendered at critical care units, higher emphasis should be placed on emotional intelligence and other significant psychological variables.</p></sec>