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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1435189

Psychological mediators between risk perception and psychological well-being in emergency healthcare workers

Provisionally accepted
MARIA DEL CARMEN BADIA GÓMEZ MARIA DEL CARMEN BADIA GÓMEZ *Rafael A. Postigo Rafael A. Postigo Javier Trillo Legaz Javier Trillo Legaz Jesús Miranda Paez Jesús Miranda Paez
  • University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain

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    Healthcare workers are subject to numerous work-related stress factors that have negative consequences on their physical and mental health, making them a vulnerable group. The recent pandemic caused by the new coronavirus generated a high demand for attention from healthcare workers, putting their mental health at risk. The aim of this study is to test a mediation model in which Resilience and the satisfaction of psychological needs play a mediating role between Risk Perception, Attitude towards the management carried out by the administration and Emotional Intelligence on Psychological Well-being and depressive symptomatology of professionals who have been on the front line. The sample consisted of 405 healthcare professionals aged between 22 and 65 years, belonging to critical care units in southern Spain. Linear correlation and mediation analyses were performed. The results showed that psychological well-being showed positive correlations with resilience and negative correlations with discrepancy in the satisfaction of psychological needs. Depressive symptoms showed negative correlations with resilience and positive correlations with psychological need satisfaction. To explore these results further, a mediation analysis was conducted and a large set of significant indirect effects was found.

    Keywords: Risk Perception, psychological well-being, healthcare professionals, Mediation, analysis

    Received: 19 May 2024; Accepted: 03 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 BADIA GÓMEZ, Postigo, Trillo Legaz and Miranda Paez. 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: MARIA DEL CARMEN BADIA GÓMEZ, University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain

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