Challenge, threat, coping potential: How primary and secondary appraisals of job demands predict nurses' affective states during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid raise of work-related stress among nurses, affecting their emotional well-being. This study examined how nurses appraise job demands (i.e. time pressure, emotional demands and physical demands) during the pandemic, and how primary (i.e. challenge and threat) and secondary appraisals (i.e. coping potential) of job demands predict nurses' affective states (i.e. positive affect, anger and anxiety).

Design

A cross-sectional online survey.

Methods

419 nurses completed self-report measures of job demands and related appraisals. Data analyses comprised correlation analysis, factor analysis, hierarchical linear regression analysis and dominance analysis.

Results

Emotional and physical demands correlated exclusively with thre

SUBMITTER: Fernandez De Henestrosa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170884 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature