Resilience Protects Nurses from Workplace Gaslighting and Quiet Quitting, and Improves Their Work Engagement: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece.

Although gaslighting is an alarming issue, the literature on predictors of this phenomenon is scarce. To examine the association between resilience and gaslighting in the workplace, quiet quitting, and work engagement among nurses. We conducted a cross-sectional study in Greece during December 2024. We used the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) to measure levels of resilience in our sample. Moreover, we used the Gaslighting at Work Scale (GWS), the Quiet Quitting Scale, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-3 to measure workplace gaslighting, quiet quitting, and work engagement, respectively. The study population included 462 nurses with a mean age of 36.80 years. We found that resilience protected nurses from workplace gaslighting. After adjusting gender, age, educational level, and work experience, a negative association was found between resilience and GWS score ( < 0.001), loss of self-trust ( < 0.001), and abuse of power ( < 0.001). Moreover, our multivariable analysis identified a negative association between resilience and Quiet Quitting Scale score ( < 0.001), detachment ( < 0.001), lack of initiative ( < 0.001), and lack of motivation ( < 0.001). Additionally, we identified a positive relationship between resilience and work engagement ( < 0.001). Our findings suggested the protective role of resilience against gaslighting in the workplace and quiet quitting in nurses. Moreover, we found that resilience improved nurses' work engagement. However, the cross-sectional nature of this study cannot imply causality between the study variables, and, thus, further studies are required to clarify the association between resilience, workplace gaslighting, quiet quitting, and work engagement.