The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Emotional Exhaustion among Nursing Staff: The Mediating Role of Job Insecurity

The study focuses on nursing professionals, who are frequently subjected to interpersonal pressures and high job expectations that could negatively impact their psychological well-being. The study is based on the Conservation of Resources hypothesis, the Job Demands–Resources Model, and the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, which together explain how workplace pressures drain personal resources and lead to emotional Exhaustion. 165 nursing staff members who were chosen by simple random sampling completed self-administered questionnaires as part of a quantitative study design. Descriptive statistics, regression analysis, correlation analysis, and mediation testing using the PROCESS Macro were performed in SPSS. The results show that bullying at work considerably raises emotional Exhaustion and job insecurity. Additionally, it was discovered that employment instability significantly improved emotional Exhaustion. The association between workplace bullying and emotional Exhaustion is partially mediated by job instability, according to the mediation study. The study concludes that boosting nurses' psychological well-being requires reducing workplace bullying and increasing perceptions of job security. The results give practical implications for bolstering anti-bullying policies, supervisory practices, and employee well-being programs in hospitals. They also validate major stress and resource-based models in a South Asian healthcare context, extending existing theory.