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 MedicineDongguan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital,DongguanGuangdong 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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