THE IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL LABOR AND SECONDARY TRAUMATIC STRESS ON QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG MENTAL HEALTH NURSES IN PAKISTAN.
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Emotional labor, Secondary traumatic stress, Psychiatric nurses, Quality of life, Mental health
Abstract
Mental care nursing is among the most challenging professions that involves consistent emotional engagement and regulation. Because mental disorders are becoming more common, there is a greater need for top-notch mental and psychiatric nurse services than there are currently available (1). Current study is focused on studying the impact of emotional labor (EL) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) on quality of life (QoL) among psychiatric nurses along with studying the effect of demographics i.e. age, gender, monthly income and hospital setting, on study variables. For that purpose current study employed cross-sectional research design and recruited a sample of (N = 140) calculated via G*Power. Purposive sampling technique was employed, since only psychiatric nurses were needed for the study. The data was collected from different cities of Pakistan. Following measures were used to collect data from the sample: Emotional labor scale (2), Professional quality of life scale version-5 (3) and Quality of Life Scale (4). Results reported, that emotional labor (EL)- surface acting (SA) and deep acting (DA), DA showed a significant positive association with QoL, whereas SA reported significant negative association with QoL. STS reported negative and significant association with QoL. Moreover, results further showed EL-DA reported significant positive relation with STS. The results emphasize that by promoting self-care and providing readily accessible measures for dealing with emotional stressors will in return ensure the well-being of the psychiatric nurses.
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Maria Ilyas
MS Scholar, Department of Applied Psychology, Riphah International University Islamabad.
Dr. Aftab Hussain
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, Riphah International University, Islamabad.
Sara Siddiqui
MS Scholar, Department of Public Health, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
Qurrat-ul-ain Aini
Department of Education, Universidad Católica De Murcia, Spain
Farah Jabeen
Department of Applied Psychology, University of Punjab
Hala Ali Shibli
Department of Education, Universidad Católica De Murcia, Spain