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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1503051

Career calling and safety behavior among nurses: a crosssectional study based on latent profile analysis

Provisionally accepted
Linli Xie Linli Xie 1Sijia Xie Sijia Xie 2*Yan Yu Yan Yu 3*Jie Jing Jie Jing 2*Min Shi Min Shi 4*Lingli Dai Lingli Dai 5*
  • 1 Department of Neurology, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
  • 2 Department of Nursing, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
  • 3 Day Surgery Unit, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
  • 4 Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Harbin, Harbin, Jilin Province, China
  • 5 Department of Gastroenterology, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, the Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

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    Objective: This study aimed to clarify the subgroups of career calling among Chinese nurses, explore the factors correlated with the subgroups, and investigate the relationship between nurse safety behavior and different profiles of career calling.A cross-sectional study of 2567 nurses from 25 hospitals in China was conducted from February to September 2023. A latent profile model of nurses' career calling was analyzed using Mplus 7.4. The influencing factors of each profile were analyzed by multinomial logistic regression analysis. The hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between nurse safety behavior and different profiles of career calling. The STROBE guidelines were followed in this research.Results: Three distinct latent profiles were identified: "low-calling" type (12.4%), "medium-2 calling" type (54.4%), and "high-calling" type (33.2%) groups respectively. Gender and number of night shifts per month were identified as factors influencing the latent profiles of nurses' career calling. The different categories of career calling significantly predicted the nurse safety behavior (ΔR 2 =0.307, p<0.001).This study found that nurses experience different types of career calling. The different categories of career calling are significantly associated with the nurse safety behavior. Consequently, administrators should pay attention to the differences in individual career calling and develop targeted intervention strategies to facilitate nurses' career calling based on the influences of the different underlying profiles and develop enhancement strategies to strengthen nurses' safety behaviors to ensure patient safety.

    Keywords: Nurses, latent profile analysis, Career calling, safety behavior, China

    Received: 28 Sep 2024; Accepted: 19 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xie, Xie, Yu, Jing, Shi and Dai. 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:
    Sijia Xie, Department of Nursing, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
    Yan Yu, Day Surgery Unit, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
    Jie Jing, Department of Nursing, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
    Min Shi, Department of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Harbin, Harbin, Jilin Province, China
    Lingli Dai, Department of Gastroenterology, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, the Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

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