Psychology, Health & Medicine ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 , DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2021.1946107 Dingxin Xu 1 , Na Zhang 2 , Xing Bu 3 , Jinai He 4
ABSTRACT
The outbreak of COVID-19 undoubtedly aggravated the pressure and workload of nurses’ work, which may bring new challenges to nurses’ work engagement. This study aims to explore the factors of nurses’ work engagement, and it may provide targeted references for clinical intervention. Convenience sampling was used, and 689 nurses from Hebei and Guangxi Province in China were investigated. The results indicated that both perceived organizational support and psychological safety have direct positive impacts on nurses’ work engagement, and psychological safety mediates the relationship between perceived organizational support and work engagement. These findings provide new ideas to help nursing managers better understand how to improve work engagement.