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The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Workplace bullying experienced by clinical nurses is a critical and pervasive issue that not only detrimentally impacts nurses but also poses a significant threat to the overall quality of nursing services and patient care. This study aimed to determine the mediating role of organization...

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Autores principales: Xia, Guili, Zhang, Yi, Dong, Ling, Huang, Fengtao, Pu, Yao, Luo, Jiang, Chen, Yi-ping, Lei, Zhengxia
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37803355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01547-8
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author Xia, Guili
Zhang, Yi
Dong, Ling
Huang, Fengtao
Pu, Yao
Luo, Jiang
Chen, Yi-ping
Lei, Zhengxia
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Zhang, Yi
Dong, Ling
Huang, Fengtao
Pu, Yao
Luo, Jiang
Chen, Yi-ping
Lei, Zhengxia
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description BACKGROUND: Workplace bullying experienced by clinical nurses is a critical and pervasive issue that not only detrimentally impacts nurses but also poses a significant threat to the overall quality of nursing services and patient care. This study aimed to determine the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China. METHODS: Participants were recruited from 40 hospitals in various provinces of China from December 2, 2021 to February 25, 2023, using convenience sampling. After obtaining hospital ethical approval and participants’ informed consent, clinical nurses (n = 585) from different nursing departments in different hospitals completed the questionnaire. The Socio-demographic Questionnaire, Negative Acts Qestionnaire, Chinese Workers’ Organizational Commitment Scale and Turnover Intention Questionnaire were used to collect general demographic data of nurses and assess workplace bullying they experienced, their level of organizational commitment and turnover intention. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analyses and structural equation model were adopted to analyze the data. RESULTS: Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that that workplace bullying was significantly negatively correlated with organizational commitment (r = − 0.512, P<0.01) and significantly positively correlated with turnover intention (r = 0.558, P<0.01), organizational commitment was significantly negatively correlated with turnover intention (r = − 0.539, P<0.01). Mediation analysis indicated organizational commitment partially mediated the association between workplace bullying and turnover intention. The total effect (β = 0.69) of workplace bullying on turnover intention consisted of its direct effect (β = 0.41) and the indirect effect mediated through organizational commitment (β = 0.280), with the mediating effect accounting for 40.58% of the total effect. CONCLUSION: Organizational commitment mediated the associations of workplace bullying and turnover intention. Therefore, healthcare organizations and nursing managers should develop appropriate strategies to enhance nurses’ organizational commitment in order to reduce their turnover intention.
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spelling pubmed-105595832023-10-08 The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study Xia, Guili Zhang, Yi Dong, Ling Huang, Fengtao Pu, Yao Luo, Jiang Chen, Yi-ping Lei, Zhengxia BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: Workplace bullying experienced by clinical nurses is a critical and pervasive issue that not only detrimentally impacts nurses but also poses a significant threat to the overall quality of nursing services and patient care. This study aimed to determine the mediating role of organizational commitment in the relationship between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China. METHODS: Participants were recruited from 40 hospitals in various provinces of China from December 2, 2021 to February 25, 2023, using convenience sampling. After obtaining hospital ethical approval and participants’ informed consent, clinical nurses (n = 585) from different nursing departments in different hospitals completed the questionnaire. The Socio-demographic Questionnaire, Negative Acts Qestionnaire, Chinese Workers’ Organizational Commitment Scale and Turnover Intention Questionnaire were used to collect general demographic data of nurses and assess workplace bullying they experienced, their level of organizational commitment and turnover intention. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analyses and structural equation model were adopted to analyze the data. RESULTS: Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that that workplace bullying was significantly negatively correlated with organizational commitment (r = − 0.512, P<0.01) and significantly positively correlated with turnover intention (r = 0.558, P<0.01), organizational commitment was significantly negatively correlated with turnover intention (r = − 0.539, P<0.01). Mediation analysis indicated organizational commitment partially mediated the association between workplace bullying and turnover intention. The total effect (β = 0.69) of workplace bullying on turnover intention consisted of its direct effect (β = 0.41) and the indirect effect mediated through organizational commitment (β = 0.280), with the mediating effect accounting for 40.58% of the total effect. CONCLUSION: Organizational commitment mediated the associations of workplace bullying and turnover intention. Therefore, healthcare organizations and nursing managers should develop appropriate strategies to enhance nurses’ organizational commitment in order to reduce their turnover intention. BioMed Central 2023-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10559583/ /pubmed/37803355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01547-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023, corrected publication 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Xia, Guili
Zhang, Yi
Dong, Ling
Huang, Fengtao
Pu, Yao
Luo, Jiang
Chen, Yi-ping
Lei, Zhengxia
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title The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study
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title_fullStr The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study
title_short The mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in China: a cross-sectional study
title_sort mediating role of organizational commitment between workplace bullying and turnover intention among clinical nurses in china: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10559583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37803355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01547-8
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