Attachment and pain belief as mediators of adjustment to chronic pain in elderly community residents / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To explore how attachment and pain belief mediate the relationship among coping strategies and adjustment to chronic pain in elderly community residents.Methods The demographic questionnaire,the Chinese version of Brief Pain Inventory,Coping Strategies Questionnaire-Revised,Experiences in Close Relationship-Revised,Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory were used to investigate 242 patients in chronic pain.Results Attachment avoidance mediate the relationship between brace face,between bad feeling,between ignorance of pain and adjustment to chronic pain,with the mediation effects being 0.047,0.031 and 0.017 respectively,accounting for 27.99％,6.28％ and 7.28％ of total effect.The belief of continuing pain mediates the relationship between bad feeling and adjustment to chronic pain,with the mediation effect being 0.043,accounting for 9.54％ of total effect.The belief that pain can not be relieved mediates the relationship between bad feeling and adjustment to chronic pain,with the mediation effect being 0.022,accounting for 4.89％ of total effect.Conclusions Attachment avoidance,belief of continuing pain and belief that pain can not be relived play mediation roles between coping strategies and adjustment to chronic pain,attachment avoidance accounts for a more important role in all.

The relationships among organization climate, psychological empowerment and job embeddedness / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To explore the relationships among organization climate,psychological empowerment and job embeddedness by using path analysis.Methods A total of 514 clinical nurses from 26 departments in 3 hospitals were recruited by convenience cluster sampling method and investigated with demography questionnaire,Nurses Organizational Climate Scale,Psychological Empowerment Scale and Job Embeddedness Scale.Results The mean scores of organization climate,psychological empowerment and job embeddedness was (3.01±0.46),(3.27±0.44),(3.08±0.39).The predictors of job embeddedness of nurses were resources support,work experience,human resources management,marital status,job title,management support,quality management,and self-egicacy,explained 48.9％ of its variance; organization climate,psychological empowerment had direct positive influence on nurses' job embeddedness,explained 33.3％ of its variance.Conclusions Improvement and maintenance of sound organizational climate,increase the sense of psychological empowerment of nurses,are effective ways and means to increase the degree of job embedding of nurses.