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Mental health risks among nurses under abusive supervision: the moderating roles of job role ambiguity and patients’ lack of reciprocity

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems, May 2015
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Title
Mental health risks among nurses under abusive supervision: the moderating roles of job role ambiguity and patients’ lack of reciprocity
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13033-015-0014-x
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Jing Qian, Haiwan Wang, Zhuo Rachel Han, Jun Wang, Hui Wang

Abstract

While the nursing profession has been associated with mental health problems and the research into the antecedents of mental health has steadily grown, the relationship between abusive supervision and mental health issues of anxiety and depression remains largely unknown. This study aims to examine the relationship between abusive supervision and mental health problems. And we also aim to investigate whether this relationship is moderated by role ambiguity and the patients' lack of reciprocity. A total of 227 frontline nurses from two public hospitals completed the survey questionnaire. (1) Abusive supervision was positively associated with poor mental health; (2) the positive relationship was moderated by nurses' perceived role ambiguity in such a way that the relationship was stronger when the perceived role ambiguity is high; (3) the positive relationship was moderated by the patients' lack of reciprocity in such a way that the relationship was stronger when patients' lack of reciprocity was high. To conclude, the present study showed that abusive supervision was positively associated with mental health problems of anxiety and depression among samples of Chinese nurses. Findings of this study also highlighted that this relationship was contingent upon perceived role ambiguity and patients' reciprocity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 1%
Unknown 71 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 18%
Student > Master 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 10%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 16 22%
Unknown 15 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 24%
Business, Management and Accounting 14 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 10%
Arts and Humanities 4 6%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 15 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2015.
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#14,812,531
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#517
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#147,166
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#8
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