Table 1.
Individual and contextual characteristics of subjects in two groups.
| Variables | Nurses of other hospitals | Nurses of psychiatric hospital | Mean | SD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Percentage | Frequency | Percentage | |||
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 31 | 31 | 20 | 20 | ||
| Female | 69 | 69 | 80 | 80 | ||
| Education | ||||||
| Bachelor’s degree | 85 | 85 | 90 | 90 | ||
| Master’s degree | 15 | 15 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Marital status | ||||||
| Single | 64 | 64 | 74 | 74 | ||
| Married | 36 | 36 | 26 | 26 | ||
| Employment type | ||||||
| Contractual | 40 | 40 | 53 | 53 | ||
| Temporary-to-permanent | 31 | 31 | 28 | 28 | ||
| Conscription law’s conscripts | 29 | 29 | 19 | 19 | ||
| Quantitative specifications | ||||||
| Age (others), years | 31.67 | 9.17 | ||||
| Age (psychiatric), years | 33.32 | 10.02 | ||||
Table 2.
Determination and comparison of the mean score of self-compassion and its dimensions in subjects of both groups.
| Variable \ Group | Nurses of psychiatric hospitals | Nurses of other hospitals | Test | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Self-kindness | 6.24 | 1.4 | 6.72 | 1.74 | 2.14 | 0.002 |
| Self-judgment | 5.86 | 1.75 | 6.65 | 1.99 | 2.96 | 0.11 |
| Common humanity | 5.88 | 1.48 | 6.55 | 1.74 | 2.92 | 0.01 |
| Isolation | 5.78 | 1.61 | 6.43 | 1.64 | 2.82 | 0.60 |
| Mindfulness | 6.27 | 1.53 | 6.54 | 1.83 | 1.12 | 0.006 |
| Over identification | 6.06 | 1.73 | 6.46 | 2.08 | 1.14 | 0.01 |
| Total | 36.03 | 5.81 | 39.35 | 7.7 | 3.37 | 0.004 |
Table 3.
Comparison of the mean score of sense of coherence and its dimensions in nurses working in the two groups of hospitals.
| Variable \ Group | Nurses of other hospitals | Nurses of other hospitals | Test | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Perceptibility | 18.28 | 3.34 | 20.13 | 3.86 | 3.54 | 0.001 |
| Controllability | 16.93 | 2.96 | 17.01 | 3.36 | 0.17 | 0.8 |
| Significance | 14.55 | 3.77 | 15.88 | 3.74 | 2.63 | 0.009 |
| Total | 49.76 | 6.30 | 53.02 | 8.01 | 3.19 | 0.002 |
Table 4.
The relationship between the score of sense of coherence and the dimensions of self-compassion in both groups.
| Variable | Selfcompassion | Self-kindness | Self-judgment | Common humanity | Isolation | Mindfulness | Overidentification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sense of coherence | r = 0.385 | r = 0.252 | r = 0.270 | r = 0.206 | r = 0.229 | r = 0.211 | r = 0.306 |
| <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |