Testing work characteristics as mediating factors in the relationships among nurse leadership, burnout, and engagement

Nurse staff burnout is a critical element of the quality of worklife for nurses, due to burnout’s positive relationship with turnover/turnover intentions. This study attempted to bridge the gap between two areas of related research: transformational leadership and burnout/engagement, using work characteristics (i.e., areas of worklife: AWL) as mediators of the relationship between leadership and burnout/engagement. A sample (N = 142) of practicing nursing students and full-time working nurses who were recruited from a university, hospital, and social network connections completed a questionnaire that gathered their perceptions of nurse leadership, AWL, and burnout/engagement. Results suggested that transformational leadership is strongly related to AWL, and that specific AWL mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and burnout/engagement. The model used in this study is situational and its measures have the ability to locate the sources of burnout/engagement.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Heather Kaye

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cunningham, Christopher J. L.
• O'Leary, Brian J.; Weathington, Bart L.
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Employee attitude surveys
• Employees -- Attitudes
• Nurses
• Transformational leadership

Licence

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/77

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1082