The mediating role of psychological capital between Dayadi stress and job burnout in female nurses with two children

BACKGROUND: This study aims to understand the job burnout status of female nurses with two children and explore the mediating role of psychological capital between dyadic stress and job burnout. METHODS: We used a random sampling method to select 386 female nurses with two children from four tertiary level hospitals between July and October 2020. A general data questionnaire, dyadic stress scale, psychological capital scale, and job burnout scale were used for the investigation and analysis. RESULTS: The psychological capital score of nurses with two children was 84.87±15.45, the dyadic stress was 34.48±6.18, and the job burnout score was 68.28±14.28. Factors affecting the binary stress score, psychological capital score, and job burnout score of nurses with two children included age, professional title, length of service, monthly income, age of the first child, the type of childcare arrangements, and hospital department. The psychological capital score was negatively correlated with the job burnout score (r=−0.617, P<0.01). There was a positive correlation between the dyadic stress score and the job burnout score (r=0.539, P<0.01), and a negative correlation between the psychological capital score and the binary stress score (r=−0.528, P<0.01). The mediating effect of psychological capital was 0.199, accounting for 36.71% of the total effect. CONCLUSIONS: The results showed that dyadic stress and job burnout in nurses with two children were at a high level and that psychological capital played a partial mediating role between binary stress and job burnout.