Exploring how awareness of character strengths can benefit mental health nurses

Macfarlane, Jan

doi:10.12968/bjmh.2019.8.3.145

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“…In a 6-year longitudinal study, it was found that the students with higher levels of hope showed better overall grade averages even after controlling for entrance exam scores (Snyder et al, 2002 ). The university is the ideal place to cultivate the strengths that will result in better professional performance, while increasing the vocation for the profession (Harzer & Ruch, 2015 ; Macfarlane, 2019 ).…”

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“…Based on these antecedents, scientific interest in the study of character strengths in students who pursue college programmes involving high levels of stress and high dropout rates (such as nursing courses) has increased (Burke et al, 2009;Grady & Cantor, 2012;Harzer & Ruch, 2015;Littman-Ovadia & Steger, 2010;Macfarlane, 2019;Xie et al, 2020). In this sense, strengths such as self-regulation and prudence have been shown to favour adaptation to university (Shin et al, 2015), and enthusiasm, hope, curiosity, love, and gratitude are most strongly related to overall job satisfaction (Heintz & Ruch, 2020;Macfarlane, 2019). In a 6-year longitudinal study, it was found that the students with higher levels of hope showed better overall grade averages even after controlling for entrance exam scores (Snyder et al, 2002).…”

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Can Character Strengths Predict College Adjustment? A Study Carried Out in Nursing Students in the Argentine Republic

Grinhauz¹,

Azzara²,

Azzollini

2022

Trends in Psychol.

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The objective of the study was to analyse and develop an explanatory model of the relationship between strengths of character and adaptation to the university in nursing students from different educational institutes of the Provinces of Buenos Aires and Formosa, in its three dimensions—academic, social, and institutional. The prediction model was based on the 24 character strengths of 210 nursing students from different educational institutes of the Provinces of Buenos Aires and Formosa, aged between 20 and 55 years ( M = 28.49; SD = 7.51; 76% women). The Inventory of Virtues and Strengths and the Scale of Adaptation to the University were used. Three multiple linear regression analyses were carried out, one for each dimension of university adaptation. The strengths of citizenship, hope, prudence, and social intelligence predicted the social dimension. The strengths of vitality, citizenship, and fairness predicted the institutional dimension. The strengths of prudence, spirituality, and vitality predicted the academic dimension. The results allow us to state that character strengths constitute a valuable resource for the nursing student given their role as predictors of the ability to adapt to university life.

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Can Character Strengths Predict College Adjustment? A Study Carried Out in Nursing Students in the Argentine Republic

Grinhauz¹,

Azzara²,

Azzollini

2022

Trends in Psychol.

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“…The five character strengths that people emphasize the most in terms of their identity are known as signature strengths. Signature strengths can naturally affect daily behavior (Macfarlane, 2019). It is possible that the five character strengths, which are the most in LSCC that aims to change behavior through teaching, will affect the signature strengths of the students.…”

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Temperate but not Brave Children: Character Strengths in Life Science Course Curriculum

Yılmaz

2021

Participatory Educational Research

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It was aimed to examine the learning outcomes in the Life Science Course Curriculum (LSCC) in terms of character strengths in the present study. This research was carried out with the analytical research model. In the research framework, deductive content analysis was used. According to the results, prudence, self-regulation, citizenship, kindness, and social intelligence were the top five character strengths in LSCC. The strengths of bravery, persistence, leadership, forgiveness, modesty, hope, and humor were not found in LSCC. The most prominent virtue in LSCC was temperance. It is noteworthy that courage was the least emphasized virtue in LSCC. As the grade increased, the virtue of wisdom was more emphasized within LSCC learning outcomes. Considering the units, self-regulation, social intelligence, citizenship, kindness, prudence, and open-mindedness were the most emphasized character strengths in the unit of Life in Our School. Self-regulation, prudence, social intelligence, open-mindedness, love, and appreciation were the most common ones in the unit of Life in Our Home. Prudence and selfregulation came to the fore in the units of Healthy Life and the Safe Life. Citizenship in the unit of Life in Our Country and curiosity, love of learning, and love in the unit of Life in Nature became distinctive.

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“…There are two non-research papers (Macfarlane, 2019;Powell et al, 2015) and five research papers (Delgado et al, 2020;Foster, Cuzzillo, & Furness, 2018;Foster, Shochet, et al, 2018;Gillet et al, , 2020). Of the seven papers, one was an expert opinion (Macfarlane, 2019), one was a critical evaluation of literature (Powell et al, 2015), five were nonexperimental studies including a qualitative inquiry, a prospective study (Foster, Shochet, et al, 2018), a crosssection survey (Konttila et al, 2020), and the results of a national survey (Delgado et al, 2020) and one was a quasi-experimental (Foster, Cuzzillo, & Furness, 2018).…”

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Organizational factors to optimize mental health nurses' wellbeing in the workplace: An integrative literature review

O'Connor,

Prebble,

Waterworth

2023

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Mental health nursing is a privilege and a rewarding profession. There has been a call for transformational change in mental health services to improve outcomes for the people of New Zealand, with mental health nurses integral to this. However, with predicted nursing shortages, high levels of burnout, and increasing demands in the workplace, an organizational focus on wellbeing for mental health nurses is needed to sustain the workforce, implement change and improve outcomes for people using mental health services. An integrative review of the literature was undertaken to explore how organizations can optimize mental health nurses' wellbeing in the workplace and to identify measures for organizations to support mental health nurses' wellbeing with a focus on New Zealand. Seven articles were included in this review after a search, data extraction and evaluation. Data were synthesized and categorized using thematic analysis. The findings indicate organizations can invest in several initiatives to enhance mental health nurses' wellbeing in the workplace. These include professional development, skills to build resilience, enabling time to reflect on practice, enhancing professional supervision, having the right managerial support and focusing on individual's strengths. Organizations need to prioritize mental health nurses' wellbeing by embedding the practical strategies this review identified and by addressing organizational barriers to wellbeing. Organizations should consider implementing multileveled organizational wellbeing initiatives to nurture and grow the New Zealand mental health nursing workforce which in turn will contribute to quality care and enable mental health nurses to have long meaningful careers. Time, investment and resources are essential for these initiatives to be effective.

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Exploring how awareness of character strengths can benefit mental health nurses

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

Can Character Strengths Predict College Adjustment? A Study Carried Out in Nursing Students in the Argentine Republic

Can Character Strengths Predict College Adjustment? A Study Carried Out in Nursing Students in the Argentine Republic

Temperate but not Brave Children: Character Strengths in Life Science Course Curriculum

Organizational factors to optimize mental health nurses' wellbeing in the workplace: An integrative literature review

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