Relationship between anxiety and emotional intelligence in general nurses of community health service centers / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the level of anxiety and emotional intelligence in general nurses of community health service centers in Shenzhen city, and provide theoretical basis for the intervention of anxiety in general nurses by analyzing the relationship between anxiety and emotional intelligence . Methods The self-rating anxiety scale ( SAS ) and emotions intelligence scale ( EIS ) were employed for the survey among 92 general nurses from 20 community health service centers in Shenzhen city . Results The SAS scores was 40.18 ± 7.26, significantly higher than the national norm. The rate of anxiety was 54.35%. Thirty-nine contracted anxiety at a low level, accounting for 42.39%, 10 did at a moderate level, accounting for 10.87%, and 1 did at a higher level, accounting for 1.09%. The EIS score was 3.49 ± 0.47. The highest dimension score was management of emotions for others and the lowest score was emotional perception. The dimension of management of emotions for others was positively related to social anxiety (P<0.05), and the dimension of use of emotions negatively related to social anxiety (P<0.05). Conclusions General nurses of community health service centers in Shenzhen suffer from anxiety at a high level and their emotional intelligence is at a medium level. Both factors predict the level of social anxiety in general nurses of community health service centers . Improving the emotional intelligence can be an approach to reduce the level of anxiety.