PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting the resilience of emotional intelligence, job stress coping, and organizational socialization of nurses working in long-term care hospitals.
METHODS
The participants were 153 nurses working in 8 long-term care hospitals in B city. Data were collected from February. 1 to Feb. 15, 2019 SPSS/WIN 23.0 was used for analysis with t-test, ANOVA, Scheffé test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise regression.
RESULTS
Factors influencing resilience in the participants were emotional intelligence (β=.38, p < .001), coping behavior-focusing on the positive (β=.29, p < .001), nurse motivation (β=.16, p=.006), organizational socialization (β=.17, p=.009), coping behavior-tension reduction (β=.14, p=.023). These factors contributed 54% of the total variance in resilience.
CONCLUSION
It is necessary to study emotional intelligence and hospital nurses' coping with job stress while carrying out highly emotional activities on the job and to develop a program that can enhance the resilience of the nurses to improve psychological wellbeing and verify the effects.

Citations

• Mediation Analysis of Emotional Intelligence on the Relationship between Social Support and Resilience by Clinical Nurses in COVID-19
  Hye-Yeon Shin, Myoung-Lyun Heo
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2023; 29(3): 181.     CrossRef