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The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians’ well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians’ professional fulfillment. OBJECTIVE: To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self,...

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Autores principales: Bogerd, Rosa, Debets, Maarten P. M., Keuken, Debby G., Hassink, Rutger J., Henriques, José P. S., Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10124859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37093877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284507
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author Bogerd, Rosa
Debets, Maarten P. M.
Keuken, Debby G.
Hassink, Rutger J.
Henriques, José P. S.
Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H.
author_facet Bogerd, Rosa
Debets, Maarten P. M.
Keuken, Debby G.
Hassink, Rutger J.
Henriques, José P. S.
Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H.
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description BACKGROUND: Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians’ well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians’ professional fulfillment. OBJECTIVE: To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physicians’ professional fulfillment and whether this relationship was mediated by personal resilience and work-home interference. METHODS: In 2020, cardiologists (n = 374) in the Netherlands participated in a web-based survey. Self-kindness was measured by the self-kindness subscale of the Self-Compassion Scale, personal resilience by the Brief Resilience Scale, work-home interference by the negative Work-Home Interference subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction–Nijmegen, and professional fulfillment by the corresponding subscale of the Professional Fulfillment Index. Using Hayes’ SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5, the authors tested the parallel mediation model. RESULTS: Self-kindness was not directly associated with professional fulfillment (direct effect = .042, p = .36, 95% CI: -0.048, 0.132). Self-kindness was indirectly related to professional fulfillment through individual resilience (indirect effect = .049, 95% CI: .020, 0.086) and work-home interference (indirect effect = .057, 95% CI: .023, 096). CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that improving physicians’ self-kindness may enhance professional fulfillment through personal resilience and work-home interference. Our findings may stimulate and remind physicians to be kind towards themselves as it may benefit them and their patients.
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spelling pubmed-101248592023-04-25 The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study Bogerd, Rosa Debets, Maarten P. M. Keuken, Debby G. Hassink, Rutger J. Henriques, José P. S. Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians’ well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians’ professional fulfillment. OBJECTIVE: To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physicians’ professional fulfillment and whether this relationship was mediated by personal resilience and work-home interference. METHODS: In 2020, cardiologists (n = 374) in the Netherlands participated in a web-based survey. Self-kindness was measured by the self-kindness subscale of the Self-Compassion Scale, personal resilience by the Brief Resilience Scale, work-home interference by the negative Work-Home Interference subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction–Nijmegen, and professional fulfillment by the corresponding subscale of the Professional Fulfillment Index. Using Hayes’ SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5, the authors tested the parallel mediation model. RESULTS: Self-kindness was not directly associated with professional fulfillment (direct effect = .042, p = .36, 95% CI: -0.048, 0.132). Self-kindness was indirectly related to professional fulfillment through individual resilience (indirect effect = .049, 95% CI: .020, 0.086) and work-home interference (indirect effect = .057, 95% CI: .023, 096). CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that improving physicians’ self-kindness may enhance professional fulfillment through personal resilience and work-home interference. Our findings may stimulate and remind physicians to be kind towards themselves as it may benefit them and their patients. Public Library of Science 2023-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10124859/ /pubmed/37093877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284507 Text en © 2023 Bogerd et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bogerd, Rosa
Debets, Maarten P. M.
Keuken, Debby G.
Hassink, Rutger J.
Henriques, José P. S.
Lombarts, Kiki M. J. M. H.
The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title_full The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title_short The relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study
title_sort relationship between physicians’ self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10124859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37093877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284507
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