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Mediating effect of organizational commitment on nurses’ ethical climate and ethical behavior† Cover

Mediating effect of organizational commitment on nurses’ ethical climate and ethical behavior†

Open Access
|Jan 2026

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Figure 1.

Conceptual model and the study hypotheses.
Conceptual model and the study hypotheses.

Figure 2.

Path diagram that shows the factor loads of the observed variables after modifications in the latent variables (ethical climate, organizational commitment, and ethical behavior).
Path diagram that shows the factor loads of the observed variables after modifications in the latent variables (ethical climate, organizational commitment, and ethical behavior).

Relationship between nurses’ ethical climate and behaviors_

Variablesr
Individual egoism0.039
Global egoism–0.038
Individual ethical principles0.061
Regional egoism0.079
Individual benevolence0.227***
Regional ethical principles0.033
Regional benevolence0.096
Global ethical principles0.062
Global benevolence0.067
Total0.085

Relationshipbetween ethical climate perception and nurses’ organizational commitment_

Pearson correlation (r)Organizational commitment
Affective commitmentContinuous commitmentNormative commitmentTotal
Ethical climateIndividual egoism0.307***0.0630.230***0.240***
Global egoism–0.0290.054–0.173–0.054
Individual ethical principles0.319***0.0730.222***0.247***
Regional egoism0.162**0.0520.185**0.164**
Individual benevolence0.227***0.132*0.130*0.208***
Regional ethical principles0.327***0.0190.177**0.201**
Regional benevolence0.187**0.0040.143*0.129*
Global ethical principles0.279***–0.0040.174**0.170**
Global benevolence0.327***0.166**0.177**0.281***
Total0.372***0.0980.222***0.279***

Model indices after applying modifications_

Modelbeta
Coefficients
Ethical climate → Organizational commitment3.261*
Ethical climate → Ethical behavior0.121**
Indices
RMSEA0.052
CFI0.908
GFI0.903
AGFI0.876
NNFI0.893
Chi-square—X2 (df)317.811 (181)
X2/df1.756

Relationship between nurses’ organizational commitment and their ethical behaviors_

Pearson correlation (r)Organizational commitment
Affective commitmentContinuous commitmentNormative commitmentTotal
Ethical behavior–0.0080.0650.0080.036
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2025-0060 | Journal eISSN: 2544-8994 | Journal ISSN: 2097-5368
Language: English
Page range: 547 - 554
Submitted on: Aug 22, 2024
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Accepted on: Sep 6, 2024
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Published on: Jan 27, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2026 Zahra Marzieh Hassanian, Arezoo Shayan, Maryam Seyedtabib, Leili Tapak, Zahra Karami, published by Shanxi Medical Periodical Press
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