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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Positive Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1527252
Latent Profiles of Psychological Capital in Clinical Nursing Teachers and Their Association with Practice Environment of Nursing and Perceived Social Support
Provisionally accepted- 1 Second People’s Hospital of Yibin, Yibin, China
- 2 Harbin Medical University (Daqing), Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China
Background: Clinical nursing teachers (CNTs) play a critical role in nursing education, and their psychological capital (PsyCap) acts as an intrinsic motivational resource to assist them in facing the challenges of clinical teaching. Purpose: This research aims to examine the diversity of PsyCap in CNTs and its associated influencing factors by latent profile analysis. Methods: A cross-sectional study on 322 CNTs was conducted with four scales, following the STROBE statement guidelines. Results: The levels of PsyCap among CNTs could be categorized into low PsyCap (24.1%), moderate PsyCap (53.6%), and high PsyCap (22.3%). Moreover, with the multiple logistic regression, there are significant effects of length of nursing experience, fertility status, self-reported health, nursing practice environment, and social support on the different categories of PsyCap of CNTs (P <0.05).The majority PsyCap of CNTs was at the moderate level with obvious classification characteristics, which are influenced by multiple sociodemographic factors e.g., length of nursing experience, fertility status, self-reported health, practice environment of nursing, and perceived social support.
Keywords: clinical nursing teachers, Psychological Capital, Practice environment of nursing, latent profile analysis, social support
Received: 13 Nov 2024; Accepted: 25 Mar 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Yunling He, Second People’s Hospital of Yibin, Yibin, China
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