The Flight of Icarus : A Preliminary Study of the Emotional Correlates of Hubris in Gerontological Nurses during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Persons in leadership positions are more likely to manifest hubristic symptomatology, the longer the person exercises power and the greater the power they exercise. No data exists for healthcare staff, such as nurses and more specifically for gerontological nurses who exercise power on their colleagues as well as older persons. This study aims to examine whether there are emotional correlates of gerontological nurses' experienced hubris when serving in a leadership position, and to investigate possible gender differences during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a little investigated period regarding its emotional aspects on healthcare professionals. Gerontological nurses in leadership positions completed Job Affect Scale, Emotional Labour Scale, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Generalized Immediacy Scale, General Index of Job Satisfaction, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Wong-Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, State-Anxiety-Inventory, Perceived Cohesion Scale, and a 5-point Likert scale measuring hubristic attributes. No statistically significant differences were found between male and female nurses regarding the abovementioned classic administered emotional scales and hubris. The analyses yielded only a negative correlation between negative affect and hubris. This research provides for the first time data regarding gerontological nurses in leadership positions, suggesting that various negative and positive emotional variables do no directly relate to hubristic symptoms for this group of healthcare professionals. As hubristic behaviors and their dangerous consequences are found not to be related to abovementioned emotional variables, researchers and hospital managers should consider and focus on other indices in their attempt to prevent such phenomena.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Psychiatria Danubina - 33(2021), Suppl 10 vom: 21. Sept., Seite 109-113

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Giannouli, Vaitsa [VerfasserIn]
Syrmos, Nikolaos [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Journal Article

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Date Completed 22.10.2021

Date Revised 22.10.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332124878