OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (10): 1322-1328.

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Study on relationship between organizational justice,psychological capital,professional identity and job burnout among clinical nurses in grade-A tertiary hospitals in Sichuan Province

JIANG Li   

  1. Intervention Center of Mianyang Central Hospital,Mianyang Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of University of Electronic Science and Technology,Mianyang Sichuan 621000,China
  • Received:2022-06-29 Revised:2023-01-03 Published:2026-03-13

Abstract: Objective To understand the status quo of organizational justice,psychological capital,professional identity and job burnout of clinical nurses in grade-A tertiary hospitals,analyze the mediating role of psychological capital and professional identity in organizational justice and job burnout. Methods From January to February 2022,1 009 clinical nurses from threegrade-A tertiary hospitals in Sichuan Province were collected by the convenience sampling method,and investigated by the organizational justice scale,psychological capital scale,occupational identity scale and job burnout scale,and the data were analyzed. Results The score of organizational justice among clinical nurses fromgrade-A tertiary hospitals was (70.95±13.48)points,psychological capital was (102.67±17.85)points,professional identity was (98.17±12.20)points,and job burnout was (47.95±11.64)points. The overall proportion of job burnout among nurses was 58.8%,and the proportions of mild,moderate and severe job burnout were 35.1%,20.4% and 3.3%,respectively. There were statistically significantdifferences in the total scores of jobburnout among nurses with different gender,age,working years and monthly average income(all P<0.05). The correlation analysis showed that the total scores of organizational justice,psychological capital and professional identity,as well as the scores of each dimensionof clinical nurses ingrade-A tertiary hospitals were negatively correlated withscores ofemotional exhaustion and personality disintegration(all P<0.01),and positively correlated with personal accomplishment score(P<0.01). The mediating effect analysis showedthat psychological capital and professional identity played a chain mediating role in organizational justice and job burnout of nurses ingrade-A tertiary hospitals,the mediating effect was -0.129,accounting for 24.48% of the total effect. Conclusion The level of job burnout of clinical nurses in grade-A tertiary hospitals is high,the psychological capital and professional identity can mediate the relationship between organizational justice and job burnout independently or cumulatively,and the nursing managers should strengthen organizational justice and improve psychological capital and professional identity of nurses through effective strategies to reduce job burnout of nurses.

Key words: Nurses, Job burnout, Organizational justice, Professional identity, Psychological capital, Mediating effect

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