How and When Does Inclusive Leadership Curb Psychological Distress During a Crisis? Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak
How and When Does Inclusive Leadership Curb Psychological Distress During a Crisis? Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01898
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发表时间：
2020-08-06
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Faraz, Naveed Ahmad
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作者：
Ahmed, Fawad;Zhao, Fuqiang;Faraz, Naveed Ahmad
大流行病等创伤性事件打破了工作场所是安全场所的假设。护士面临威胁生命的感染风险，这可能造成心理困扰。护理质量的感染患者取决于护士的心理健康，这就要求对卫生保健工作者的压力预测因素进行研究。响应号召研究领导风格对创伤性事件中心理困扰的影响，本文使用社会交换理论的理论透镜，并贡献了关于包容性领导、心理困扰、工作投入和自我牺牲之间关系的文献。研究对象为武汉市5所医院的497名注册护士。通过在线问卷收集数据，时间间隔。采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型分析数据。研究结果表明，包容性领导与心理困扰有显著的负相关关系。工作投入在此关系中起中介作用，护士的自我牺牲行为在此关系中起调节作用。研究结果表明，包容性领导风格是一种可持续的机制，可以减少流行病期间的心理困扰。它可以在工作环境中实时提供心理健康支持。研究结果为社会交换理论提供了实证支持，通过高工作投入，以帮助控制心理困扰的护士。
Traumatic events such as a pandemic shatter the assumption of the workplace as a safe place. Nurses face risks of life-threatening infection, which can create psychological distress. Quality of care for infected patients depends on mental well-being of nurses which calls for research on predictors of stress among health care workers. Responding to a call for research on the effects of leadership styles on psychological distress during traumatic events, this paper uses the theoretical lens of social exchange theory and contributes to literature on relationships between inclusive leadership, psychological distress, work engagement, and self-sacrifice. Participants of this cross sectional study included 497 registered nurses from five hospitals in Wuhan. Data were collected with temporal separation through an online questionnaire. Partial least-squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze data. Results show inclusive leadership has a significant negative relationship with psychological distress. Work engagement mediates this relationship, and nurses' self-sacrificial behavior moderates it. Findings indicate inclusive leadership style serves as a sustainable mechanism to reduce psychological distress during pandemics. It can operationalize the delivery of mental health support in real-time in work settings. Results provide empirical support for social exchange theory through high work engagement to help control psychological distress among nurses.