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The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China

INTRODUCTION: The turnover and shortage of health care workers (HCWs) have been a worldwide problem for healthcare organizations. The primary aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing the intention of Chinese HCWs to leave their job, especially meaning in life and professional happin...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yuting, Zhang, Huilin, Qin, Zuming, Zou, Ying, Feng, Zhiling, Cheng, Jiao
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38012739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00878-6
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Zhang, Huilin
Qin, Zuming
Zou, Ying
Feng, Zhiling
Cheng, Jiao
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Zhang, Huilin
Qin, Zuming
Zou, Ying
Feng, Zhiling
Cheng, Jiao
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description INTRODUCTION: The turnover and shortage of health care workers (HCWs) have been a worldwide problem for healthcare organizations. The primary aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing the intention of Chinese HCWs to leave their job, especially meaning in life and professional happiness. METHODS: This observational cross-sectional study, conducted among 1125 full-time HCWs, assessed demographic variables, meaning in life, professional happiness, and turnover intention by a survey. The survey was distributed to HCWs in three tertiary hospitals. The data were analyzed by T-tests, ANOVA, Kruskal–Wallis tests and hierarchical linear regression model. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences in turnover intention of HCWs by gender, age, role, educational level, years in practice, and number of monthly night shifts. HCWs’ meaning in life and professional happiness were negatively associated with the turnover intention. Furthermore, after controlling for other factors, meaning in life explained 3.7% of the turnover intention and professional happiness explained 13.4%. CONCLUSION: In our study, positive psychological factors were related to turnover intentions. Professional happiness was the strongest predictor. Thus, health human resource managers should foster positive psychology among HCWs to reduce their turnover. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-023-00878-6.
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spelling pubmed-106803122023-11-27 The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China Huang, Yuting Zhang, Huilin Qin, Zuming Zou, Ying Feng, Zhiling Cheng, Jiao Hum Resour Health Research INTRODUCTION: The turnover and shortage of health care workers (HCWs) have been a worldwide problem for healthcare organizations. The primary aim of this study was to identify the factors influencing the intention of Chinese HCWs to leave their job, especially meaning in life and professional happiness. METHODS: This observational cross-sectional study, conducted among 1125 full-time HCWs, assessed demographic variables, meaning in life, professional happiness, and turnover intention by a survey. The survey was distributed to HCWs in three tertiary hospitals. The data were analyzed by T-tests, ANOVA, Kruskal–Wallis tests and hierarchical linear regression model. RESULTS: There were statistically significant differences in turnover intention of HCWs by gender, age, role, educational level, years in practice, and number of monthly night shifts. HCWs’ meaning in life and professional happiness were negatively associated with the turnover intention. Furthermore, after controlling for other factors, meaning in life explained 3.7% of the turnover intention and professional happiness explained 13.4%. CONCLUSION: In our study, positive psychological factors were related to turnover intentions. Professional happiness was the strongest predictor. Thus, health human resource managers should foster positive psychology among HCWs to reduce their turnover. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12960-023-00878-6. BioMed Central 2023-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10680312/ /pubmed/38012739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00878-6 Text en © The Author(s) 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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Huang, Yuting
Zhang, Huilin
Qin, Zuming
Zou, Ying
Feng, Zhiling
Cheng, Jiao
The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title_full The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title_fullStr The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title_full_unstemmed The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title_short The impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from China
title_sort impact of meaning in life and professional happiness on the turnover intention of health care workers: a cross-sectional study from china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10680312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38012739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-023-00878-6
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