The role of collective affective commitment in the relationship between work-family conflict and emotional exhaustion among nurses: a multilevel modeling approach.
Emotional exhaustion
Multilevel analysis
Nurses
Team affective commitment
Work–family conflict
Journal
BMC nursing
ISSN: 1472-6955
Titre abrégé: BMC Nurs
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101088683
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
04
07
2018
accepted:
30
01
2019
entrez:
2
3
2019
pubmed:
2
3
2019
medline:
2
3
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Work-family conflict (WFC) is a crucial problem in nursing because of the demanding conditions of the job, such as strenuous shifts, physical and emotional workload, and intense patient involvement. Using a multilevel approach, this study investigated the moderating role of collective affective commitment as a protective resource in the relationship between WFC and emotional exhaustion. The sample included 647 nurses from 66 working units in 4 Italian hospitals. A self-administrated questionnaire was administered to nurses. To analyze data, hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine cross-level relationships between variables. The results indicated that emotional exhaustion increased with augmenting of WFC and that this relationship was stronger when collective affective commitment was low and weaker when it was high. The study thus suggests that collective affective commitment may be considered a protective resource for nurses. Moreover, the results show that high work-family conflict should not represent a serious problem when nurses have high affective commitment. Interventions at both individual and group level are discussed in order to mitigate WFC, promoting collective affective commitment and thus reducing emotional exhaustion.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Work-family conflict (WFC) is a crucial problem in nursing because of the demanding conditions of the job, such as strenuous shifts, physical and emotional workload, and intense patient involvement. Using a multilevel approach, this study investigated the moderating role of collective affective commitment as a protective resource in the relationship between WFC and emotional exhaustion.
METHODS
METHODS
The sample included 647 nurses from 66 working units in 4 Italian hospitals. A self-administrated questionnaire was administered to nurses. To analyze data, hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine cross-level relationships between variables.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The results indicated that emotional exhaustion increased with augmenting of WFC and that this relationship was stronger when collective affective commitment was low and weaker when it was high.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The study thus suggests that collective affective commitment may be considered a protective resource for nurses. Moreover, the results show that high work-family conflict should not represent a serious problem when nurses have high affective commitment. Interventions at both individual and group level are discussed in order to mitigate WFC, promoting collective affective commitment and thus reducing emotional exhaustion.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30820188
doi: 10.1186/s12912-019-0329-z
pii: 329
pmc: PMC6379994
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
5Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Formal ethics approval was not necessary for the study as the research included nurses’ perception data (through questionnaires), rather than data from patient surveys or therapeutic medication. No ethical approval is required in Italy for observational nature studies as they are not defined as medical\clinical research, referring to the Italian law 211/2003. This study complies with the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 (as revised in Edinburgh 2000) and with Italian privacy law (Decree n. 196/2003). Verbal consent was given by nurses to participate in the study. Because of the anonymity, written consent was not legally required and returning the completed questionnaire was considered as informed consent.Not applicable.The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
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