Hu Ziyi
West China Medical School of Sichuan University, China
Title: Relationship between emotional intelligence and resilience among emergency and ICU nurses
Biography
Biography: Hu Ziyi
Abstract
Objectives: To investigate the status quo and the relationship between emotional intelligence and resilience of emergency and ICU nurses in tertiary general hospitals in Chengdu.Methodology: A total of 660 emergency and ICU nurses were surveyed by a pack of questionnaires including the General Information Questionnaire, the Resilience Scale and the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale.Results: The average total score of the resilience scale was (123.07±23.76) and the average item score of the resilience scale was (4.92±0.95); The average total score of the emotional intelligence scale was (58.69±8.74) and the average item score of the emotional intelligence scale was (3.67±0.55); The correlation coefficient between the emotional intelligence and the resilience was 0.62 (P <0.01). Three subdimensions of the emotional intelligence including the usage of emotion, the appraisal of self-emotion, the regulation of emotion and the positions of nurses accounted for 43.3% of the variances of the resilience.Conclusions: Emotional intelligence played an important role in affecting the psychological resilience of emergency and ICU nurses in tertiary general hospitals in Chengdu, it could positively predict the resilience of nurses. The nurse managers could focus on the nurses' emotional intelligence to promote their resilience.