Exploring the role of personality, perfectionism, and self-compassion on the relationship between clinical decision-making and nurses’ wellbeing
Miley, Molly and Mantzios, Michail and Egan, Helen and Connabeer, Kathrina (2024) Exploring the role of personality, perfectionism, and self-compassion on the relationship between clinical decision-making and nurses’ wellbeing. Contemporary Nurse. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1037-6178
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Abstract
Background
Clinical decision-making is a core competency of the nursing role, with nurses having to make decisions surrounding patient care and patient safety daily. With decision-making being linked to psychological outcomes, it is important to consider potential areas that may support or hinder nurses’ wellbeing whilst navigating clinical decisions.
Aim
The present study sought to investigate the relationship between clinical decision-making and moral distress, and further explore the role of personality, perfectionism, philotimo (a virtue describing the desire to do right by oneself and others, aligning with one’s sense of morality), and self-compassion.
Design
An online cross-sectional survey was conducted using Qualtrics. Associations between clinical decision-making and moral distress, burnout, personality, perfectionism, philotimo, and self-compassion were examined using univariate and multivariate statistics.
Methods
One hundred and forty-three nurses from the United Kingdom completed an online questionnaire. Eligibility criteria included individuals who had practised in the nursing profession for a minimum of six months. To ensure that all participants were practising across the United Kingdom, the eligibility criteria was made clear in the study advertisement, and the consent form. The consent form required participants to confirm that they reached these criteria to proceed with the study.
Results
Results revealed that clinical decision-making was associated with moral distress experience, and that both openness to experience, and philotimo mediated this relationship, independently. In addition to this, self-compassion was significantly associated with clinical decision-making across senior banded nursing roles, but this was non-significant for junior banded nursing roles.
Conclusion
Findings highlight the role of individual differences when looking at the impact of clinical decision-making upon nurses’ wellbeing and offers explanation for any variance in moral distress experience across nursing professionals. This research identifies fundamental differences between junior and senior nurses in relation to clinical decision-making and self-compassion that should be considered in future research.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2024.2319845 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | clinical decision-making, moral distress, burnout, personality, perfectionism, philotimo, self-compassion | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Psychology | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Gemma Tonks | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2024 13:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2024 13:52 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15378 |
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