The Effect of Resilience and Optimism on Emotional Exhaustion and Job Stress of Nurses in the Fighting against epidemics

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1 Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30476/jhmi.2024.101085.1195

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Introduction: Increasing job stress, weakens nurses' health and subsequently increases emotional exhaustion and decreses their efficiency; so, aim of this study was to investigate effect of resilience and optimism on emotional exhaustion and job stress in nurses fighting against COVID-19 epidemic in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord in Iran in years 2021-2022.
Methods: The method of current study is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population of included 330 nurses working in inpatient wards of patients with Covid-19 in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord, that sample size was determined by Cochran's formula (178 people) and by available methods. the data were collected through a standard questionnaires including of resilience questionnaire of Connor and Davidson (2003); optimism questionnaire of Caliskan & Uzunkol (2018); job stress questionnaire of Sosik & Godshalk (2000) and emotional exhaustion questionnaire of Maslach & Jackson (1981).
Results: The findings showed that job stress had a significant effect on nurses' emotional exhaustion (P=0.000). Also, optimism had a significant effect on the nurses' emotional exhaustion with the mediation of job stress (P=0.004); and resilience had a significant effect on the nurses' emotional exhaustion with the mediation of job stress (P=0.025).
Conclusion: According to the results of research, it was found that as nurses' optimism and resilience increased and their stress decreased, their emotional exhaustion also decreased. Therefore, hospital supervisors could be helpful due to formulating strategies in field of increasing hope and positive energy, as well as training nurses to strengthen resilience.

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Health Management & Information Science

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Available Online from 27 February 2024

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