Table 1
Demographic characteristics of the participants
| Variables | Number of participants | % |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | ||
| Female | 147 | 98.0 |
| Male | 3 | 2.0 |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 61 | 40.7 |
| Single | 89 | 59.3 |
| Age group (in years) | ||
| 20–25 | 123 | 82.0 |
| 26–30 | 23 | 15.3 |
| 31–35 | 4 | 2.7 |
| Education | ||
| Technical secondary school | 9 | 6.0 |
| Junior college | 76 | 50.7 |
| Bachelor | 65 | 43.3 |
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Table 2
Pearson’s correlation test of relationships among burnout, positive emotions, and turnover intentions of nurses
| M | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Burnout | 67.17 | 6.74 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2. Exhaustion | 19.21 | 1.62 | 0.045 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 3. Cynicism | 15.71 | 1.70 | 0.030 | 0.124 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 4. Professional efficacy | 24.93 | 1.89 | –0.125 | –0.016 | –0.163* | 1 | – | – |
| 5. Positive emotion | 15.35 | 2.40 | –0.826** | –0.013 | –0.010 | 0.084 | 1 | – |
| 6. Turnover intention | 16.29 | 0.62 | 0.926** | 0.001 | 0.047 | –0.080 | –0.893** | 1 |
M = mean value; SD = standard deviation.
Table 3
Mediating effects of positive emotion on burnout and nurses’ turnover intentions
| Step 1: turnover intentions | Step 2: positive emotion | Step 3: turnover intentions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | |||||||||
| B-value | SE | β-value | B-value | SE | β-value | B-value | SE | β-value | |
| Gender | –0.121 | 0.135 | –0.027 | 0.529 | 0.812 | 0.031 | –0.067 | 0.108 | –0.015 |
| Age | 0.030 | 0.010 | 0.108** | –0.049 | 0.058 | –0.045 | 0.025 | 0.008 | 0.091** |
| Marital status | –0.043 | 0.043 | –0.035 | 0.210 | 0.259 | 0.043 | –0.022 | 0.035 | –0.018 |
| Education | 0.053 | 0.033 | 0.051 | –0.180 | 0.197 | –0.045 | 0.035 | 0.026 | 0.034 |
| Burnout | 0.085 | 0.003 | 0.926** | –0.295 | 0.017 | –0.829** | 0.055 | 0.004 | 0.602** |
| Positive emotion | — | — | — | — | — | — | –0.100 | 0.011 | –0.391** |
| R2–value | 0.868 | 0.688 | 0.916 | ||||||
| F–value | 189.948** | 63.384** | 260.429** | ||||||
SE = standard error; B-value = unstandardized B.