Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2023;14(1):2158533. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2022.2158533.
Professional quality of life pertains to the balance between compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. In recent years, there was an increase in compassion fatigue among medical staff due to the pandemic, all over the world, while compassion satisfaction was reported at a moderate level. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between workplace humour and professional quality of life among medical staff, as well as the moderating role of compassion in this relationship. The sample consisted of 189 participants (age = 41.01; = 9.58). Of the total sample, 57.1% are physicians, 32.3% are nurses and 6.9% are clinical psychologists. The participants completed scales measuring compassion, workplace humour, and professional quality of life. The results showed that self-enhancing and affiliative humour were positively related, while self-defeating humour was negatively related to compassion satisfaction. Burnout and secondary traumatic stress were negatively related to self-enhancing humour and positively related to self-defeating humour. Compassion moderated the relationship between affiliative humour and secondary traumatic stress. Encouraging coping strategies based on adaptive humour (i.e. affiliative humour, self-enhancing) and raising awareness about negative humour strategies (i.e. self-defeating) could contribute to an increase of quality of life among healthcare providers. Another conclusion derived from the present study sustains that compassion is a valuable personal resource positively related to compassion satisfaction. Compassion also facilitates the relationship between affiliative humour and low secondary traumatic stress. Thus, encouraging compassionate skills could be beneficial for the optimal professional quality of life.
专业生活质量涉及同情疲劳与同情满足之间的平衡。近年来，由于全球大流行，医务人员的同情疲劳有所增加，而同情满足感报告处于中等水平。本研究旨在确定医务人员工作场所幽默与专业生活质量之间的关系，以及同情在这种关系中的调节作用。样本由 189 名参与者组成（年龄 41.01 岁，标准差 9.58）。在总样本中，57.1%是医生，32.3%是护士，6.9%是临床心理学家。参与者完成了衡量同情、工作场所幽默和专业生活质量的量表。结果表明，自我增强型幽默和亲和型幽默呈正相关，而自我挫败型幽默与同情满足呈负相关。倦怠和二次创伤压力与自我增强型幽默呈负相关，与自我挫败型幽默呈正相关。同情调节了亲和型幽默与二次创伤压力之间的关系。鼓励基于适应性幽默（即亲和型幽默、自我增强型幽默）的应对策略，提高对消极幽默策略的认识（即自我挫败型幽默），可以提高医疗保健提供者的生活质量。本研究的另一个结论是，同情是一种有价值的个人资源，与同情满足呈正相关。同情也促进了亲和型幽默与低二次创伤压力之间的关系。因此，鼓励富有同情心的技能可能对最佳的专业生活质量有益。
