Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing
The study was designed to examine whether trait emotional intelligence would moderate the impact of negative emotions at work on job burnout. A total of 188 female nurses participated in this study and completed measures of trait affectivity, emotional intelligence, anger and sadness at work, and bu...
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| description | The study was designed to examine whether trait emotional intelligence would moderate the impact of negative emotions at work on job burnout. A total of 188 female nurses participated in this study and completed measures of trait affectivity, emotional intelligence, anger and sadness at work, and burnout. The results revealed significant and positive relationships between both types of negative emotions and burnout above and beyond demographics and the nurses’ trait affectivity. Importantly, the study demonstrated that trait emotional intelligence buffers the effects of negative emotions on burnout. Specifically, anger- and sadness-related emotions predicted greater burnout among nurses with low trait emotional intelligence but not among nurses with high trait emotional intelligence. These results suggest that emotional intelligence training could be implemented to prevent the adverse effect of negative emotions felt at work on job burnout. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a4e37a1990344f4ab87ef809cdb43ee2022-12-22T02:02:58ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-12-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.02649428173Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in NursingDorota Daniela Szczygiel0Moïra Mikolajczak1Sopot Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot, PolandDepartment of Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, BelgiumThe study was designed to examine whether trait emotional intelligence would moderate the impact of negative emotions at work on job burnout. A total of 188 female nurses participated in this study and completed measures of trait affectivity, emotional intelligence, anger and sadness at work, and burnout. The results revealed significant and positive relationships between both types of negative emotions and burnout above and beyond demographics and the nurses’ trait affectivity. Importantly, the study demonstrated that trait emotional intelligence buffers the effects of negative emotions on burnout. Specifically, anger- and sadness-related emotions predicted greater burnout among nurses with low trait emotional intelligence but not among nurses with high trait emotional intelligence. These results suggest that emotional intelligence training could be implemented to prevent the adverse effect of negative emotions felt at work on job burnout.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02649/fullemotional competenceangersadnessoccupational stressnurses |
| spellingShingle | Dorota Daniela Szczygiel Moïra Mikolajczak Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing Frontiers in Psychology emotional competence anger sadness occupational stress nurses |
| title | Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing |
| title_full | Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing |
| title_fullStr | Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing |
| title_short | Emotional Intelligence Buffers the Effects of Negative Emotions on Job Burnout in Nursing |
| title_sort | emotional intelligence buffers the effects of negative emotions on job burnout in nursing |
| topic | emotional competence anger sadness occupational stress nurses |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02649/full |
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