OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (17): 2352-2357.

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Latent profile analysis on the operating room nurses' emotion regulation strategies and the association with psychological flexibility

SUN Xiangzhi1, HU Rong2, QIN Lumei3a, MIAO Yanmei4, CHEN Guilan3b   

  1. 1. School of Nursing,Guizhou Medical University,Guiyang,Guizhou 550004,China;
    2. School of Nursing,Lanzhou University,Lanzhou,Gansu 730000,China;
    3. a Operating Room,b Central Sterile Supply Department,The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University,Guiyang,Guizhou 550004,China;
    4. Department of Critical Care Medicine,The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University,Zunyi,Guizhou 563099,China
  • Received:2024-11-28 Revised:2024-12-11 Online:2025-09-01 Published:2025-12-13
  • Contact: CHEN Guilan,Deputy chief nurse,E-mail:56621237@qq.com

Abstract: Objective To understand the latent categories of emotion regulation strategies among operating room nurses,analyze the influencing factors of different categories,and explore the relationship between different categories of emotion regulation strategies and psychological flexibility,so as to provide reference for nursing managers to formulate personalized emotion regulation intervention measures. Methods A convenience sampling method was used to select 403 operating room nurses from 13 tertiary public hospitals in Guizhou Province from November 2023 to April 2024,and the general information questionnaire,simplified multidimensional psychological flexibility scale,and emotion regulation questionnaire were used to survey the operating room nurses,and the data were analyzed. Results Three latent categories of emotion regulation strategies existed for operating room nurses:moderate suppression-moderate reappraisal(57.6%),high suppression-high reappraisal(26.3%) and low suppression-high reappraisal(16.1%). Gender,whether you like the operating room nursing,and the frequency of monthly night shifts were the main influences on the latent categories of emotion regulation among operating room nurses(all P<0.05). The differences in psychological flexibility scores of operating room nurses in different latent categories of emotional regulation were statistically significant(all P<0.01). The highest psychological flexibility scores of operating room nurses were found in the low suppression-high reappraisal group[(59.88±9.27)points],followed by the high suppression-high reappraisal group[(53.08±8.21)points],and the lowest in the moderate suppression-moderate reappraisal group[(45.64±8.36)points]. Conclusion Heterogeneity exists in the emotion regulation strategies of operating room nurses,and nursing management staff should formulate precise interventions to improve the emotion regulation ability of operating room nurses according to the characteristics of different emotion regulation strategies,and then promote the psychological health of operating room nurses.

Key words: Operating room nurses, Emotion regulation strategies, Latent profile analysis, Psychological flexibility, Nursing management, Mental health

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