Department of Business Administration, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.
Nurs Health Sci. 2023 Jun;25(2):216-230. doi: 10.1111/nhs.13018. Epub 2023 Apr 25.
Healthcare workers have been on the frontline of the battle against COVID-19 disease. However, this has taken a toll on them, resulting in elevated stress and poor mental health. We argue that healthcare workers' stress mindset and resilience could mitigate negative outcomes of COVID-19-related stress by helping them view this stressful situation in a more positive light and appraise it as a challenge rather than a threat. Accordingly, we hypothesized that both a stress-is-enhancing mindset about COVID-19-related stress and resilience would improve healthcare workers' appraisal of their personal resources and increase their challenge appraisals, positively contributing to their mental health. We collected data from 160 healthcare workers and performed structural equation modeling for hypothesis testing. The results indicate that both a stress-is-enhancing mindset about COVID-19-related stress and psychological resilience are indirectly related to better mental well-being and lower health-related anxiety through challenge appraisals. This study contributes to research in mental health by suggesting that protecting and promoting healthcare workers' mental health is possible by empowering them through increasing personal resources such as a positive mindset about stressful situations and resilience.
医护人员一直在抗击 COVID-19 疾病的前线。然而，这对他们造成了影响，导致压力增加和心理健康状况不佳。我们认为，医护人员的压力思维和适应力可以通过帮助他们以更积极的态度看待这种紧张情况，并将其评估为挑战而不是威胁，从而减轻与 COVID-19 相关的压力带来的负面后果。因此，我们假设对与 COVID-19 相关的压力的增强型压力思维和适应力都会改善医护人员对其个人资源的评估，并增加他们对挑战的评估，从而对他们的心理健康产生积极影响。我们从 160 名医护人员那里收集了数据，并进行了结构方程建模来检验假设。结果表明，对与 COVID-19 相关的压力的增强型压力思维和心理弹性均通过挑战评估与更好的心理健康和较低的与健康相关的焦虑间接相关。本研究通过通过增加对紧张情况的积极思维和适应力等个人资源来增强他们的能力，为心理健康研究做出了贡献，表明保护和促进医护人员的心理健康是可能的。
