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The Moderating Role of Confucian Coping in the Job Demands-Resources Model in Chinese Tertiary Hospitals
Mengzhu Deng1, Aristides I Ferreira2
1Department of Human Resource Management, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, No. 83 Zhongshan East Road Nangming District, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, 5055.cn.
Background:
Medical staff in Chinese tertiary hospitals experience excessive workloads, increasing burnout vulnerability. Traditional cultural resources may influence their job attitudes, but this area remains unexplored.
Purpose:
Based on the job demands-resources model, this study investigates how Confucian coping, as a personal culture resource, moderates the relationships among job demands, resources, engagement and burnout in Chinese medical staff.
Methods:
Using an online self-administered survey, we collected data from 1653 medical staff members across 14 tertiary hospitals in China. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesised moderating pathways.
Results:
Confucian coping demonstrated a significant positive moderating effect on the job resources-job engagement relationship and a significant negative moderating effect on the job demands-job burnout relationship.
Conclusion:
Confucian coping serves as a significant personal resource for medical staff, mitigating burnout by buffering job demands and enhancing engagement by amplifying job resources.
Originality:
By employing empirical analysis with the job demands-resources model, this study unravels how medical staff draw on Confucian coping functions and provides a new theoretical perspective for further study of the influence of cultural and psychological factors.
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