OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (24): 3373-3377.

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Impact of workplace communication stress and psychological detachment on work-family conflict among internal medicine nurses

LU Huiqing, HU Ruijuan(), YE Ruiying, ZHU Jieyi, TAN Fenghui, YANG Qunmei   

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Dongguan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital,Dongguan, Guangdong 523000, China
  • Received:2025-03-12 Revised:2025-04-09 Online:2025-12-15 Published:2026-01-22
  • Contact: HU Ruijuan,Deputy chief nurse,E-mail:564273906@qq.com

Abstract:

Objective To understand the workplace communication stress,psychological detachment,and work-family conflict among internal medicine nurses,and to explore the impact of workplace communication stress and psychological detachment on work-family conflict. Methods From June to July 2024,a convenient sampling was used to select 196 nurses from internal medicine department of 9 tertiary comprehensive hospitals in Guangdong Province as the survey subjects.The workplace communication stress scale,psychological separation scale,and work-family conflict scale were used for investigation and analysis. Results The scores for workplace communication stress,psychological detachment,and work-family conflict among internal medicine nurses were (20.34±4.72),(10.37±2.28) and (61.13±12.47)points,respectively. There were statistically significant differences in the scores of workplace communication stress among internal medicine nurses of different genders,ages,professional titles,years of work experience,monthly income,marital status,and weekly overtime hours(all P<0.05). There were statistically significant differences in the scores of occupational burnout among internal medicine nurses of different ages,professional titles,years of work experience,monthly income,and weekly overtime hours(all P<0.05). There was a positive correlation between workplace communication stress and work-family conflict among internal medicine nurses(r=0.614,P<0.01),and a negative correlation between psychological detachment and work-family conflict(r=-0.572,P<0.01).Workplace communication stress and psychological detachment were negatively correlated(r=-0.552,P<0.01). Psychological detachment played a partial mediating role between workplace communication stress and work-family conflict among internal medicine nurses,with a mediating effect of 0.285,accounting for 48.14% of the total effect. Conclusion Psychological detachment plays a partial mediating role between workplace communication stress and work-family stress.Improving psychological resilience plays an important role in reducing occupational burnout among internal medicine nurses,while reducing communication stress in the workplace.

Key words: Internal medicine nurse, Workplace communication stress, Psychological detachment, Work-family conflict

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