Effect of Career Shocks on Nurses' Job Performance: Psychological Resilience as a Key Moderator
Na Zhang1, Xiang Sun1, Xing Bu1
1School of Business, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China, bistu.edu.cn.
Background:
In the digital era, the nursing workplace has experienced profound changes, exposing nurses to complex career shocks. Existing professional studies often overemphasize individual agency in career development, neglecting how environmental stressors such as career shocks influence job performance through psychological mechanisms.
Aim:
Grounded in the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, this research examines how positive and negative career shocks differently influence the job performance of nurses, paying particular attention to the moderating effect of psychological resilience.
Methods:
This research employs a cross-sectional quantitative design. A total of 385 nurses were recruited through convenience sampling. Data were collected using questionnaires, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to analyze the relationships among the variables via Mplus.
Results:
The findings show that both positive and negative career shocks have a positive relationship with nurses' job performance. Psychological resilience demonstrated a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between positive career shocks and nurses' job performance, amplifying the beneficial effects of positive shocks; however, it showed no significant moderating effect on the link between negative career shocks and nurses' job performance.
Conclusion:
This study elucidates the influence pathways and mechanisms of positive and negative career shocks on nurses' job performance, thereby contributing to the advancement of nursing management research.
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