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Objective To investigate the influence of work-family support,self-efficacy and psychological safety climate on nurses' career growth,and to establish a model of this influence.Methods Totally 382 registered nurses were recruited from four third level and grade A hospitals in Tianjin.They were investigated with Career Growth Scale (CGS),Work-Family Support Scale (WFSS),General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) and Psychological Safety Climate (PSC).Results The total effect of work-family support on nurses career growth was 0.562 with the 95％ confidence interval at 0.502-0.641;Indirect effect was 0.121 with the 95％ confidence interval at 0.065-0.207,both of the effects were statistically significant.The effect of work-family support-psychological security atmosphere-self-efficacy and career growth path accounted for 45.1％ of the total indirect effect with 95％ confidence interval at 0.197-0.201;the effect of work-family support-self-efficacy and career growth path accounted for 54.9％ of the total indirect effect with 95％ confidence interval at 0.066-0.068,the intermediary effect were established.Conclusions This study established a structural equation model connecting work-family support,self-efficacy,psychological security atmosphere,career growth and enucleate their internal connection.The administrators of nurses should provide nurses with support on both work and life,and help nurse with their career growth through increases of self-efficacy and psychological safety climate.
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Objective To explore the relationship among psychological satety climate,proactive personality and self-efficacy.Methods Psychological safety climate scale,proactive personality scale,and self-efficacy scale were used to investigate a total of 228 registered nurses from two tertiary hospitals of Tianjin City from October to December,2013.Results The average points of nurses psychological safety climate was (3.05±0.53),average points of proactive personality was (2.70±0.48),average points of self-efficacy was (2.74±0.45),all were in the medium level.Both psychological safety climate and proactive personality could positively influence nursing self-efficacy directly(r=0349～0.472,P ＜ 0.01),and psychological safety climate could also indirectly influence nursing self-efficacy through the mediation of proactive personality (3 decreased from 0.472 to 0.352,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions Hospi-tal should make concerted efforts to improve psychological safety climate and proactive personality so as to in-crease nurses' self-efficacy.