Reaching for the stars: Iranian nurses’ perceptions of career success

Zamanzadeh, Vahid; Valizadeh, Leila; Praskova, Anna; Ghahramanian, Akram; Rassouli, Maryam; Asghari, Elnaz

doi:10.1111/inr.12460

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“…Career success refers to both the positive psychological feelings that individuals gradually accumulate and acquire in their work experience and work-related achievements (Zamanzadeh et al, 2019;Xin et al, 2020). Achieving career success is defined as developing individual potential, meeting the satisfaction of growth needs, and realizing individual selfvalue (Woolston, 2019).…”

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Self-Identity and Career Success of Nurses in Infectious Disease Department: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Social Support

Cheng

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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There has been some research conducted regarding nurses’ career success aimed at exploring its influencing factors, but there is no research on the mechanism of self-identity on the career success of infection control nurses. In order to further explore the formation mechanism of career success of nurses, we conducted our study using the Kaleidoscope Career Model to explore the chain-mediating effects of cognitive emotion regulation and social support between self-identity and career success. Five hundred forty-seven infection control nurses from nine different hospitals participated in the study and completed questionnaires on the self-identity, cognitive emotion regulation, social support, and career success scales. The results from structural equation modeling reveal that self-identity has a positive effect on positive emotion regulation and social support and a negative impact on negative emotion regulation. Positive (negative) emotion regulation has a positive (negative) effect on social support. All antecedents have a positive impact on career success except negative emotion regulation, which has a negative one. Bootstrap analysis shows that the relationship between self-identity and career success is partially mediated by the chain of cognitive emotion regulation and social support. Overall, our research sheds light on the mechanism of self-identity on career success of nurses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Self-Identity and Career Success of Nurses in Infectious Disease Department: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Social Support

Cheng

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Front. Psychol.

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“…From the 2100 articles identified, we closely reviewed 17 for career success dimensions. Next, we created a test specification where we plotted the five domains identified in our previous study (Zamanzadeh et al 2019) and cross-checked these against those identified in the systematic review. This process did not reveal new dimensions.…”

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“…The progress of developing a multidimensional measure of career success has been slow due to the general lack of exploratory research with nurses (Li et al 2014). Encouragingly, Zamanzadeh et al (2019) interviewed nurses practicing in Iranian hospitals to understand how they perceived this concept. They found that nurses felt successful when they (1) provided high-quality care, (2) contributed to organizational objectives and worked collaboratively, (3) developed clinical skills, (4) showed important personal attributes and (5) felt internally satisfied.…”

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“…They found that nurses felt successful when they (1) provided high-quality care, (2) contributed to organizational objectives and worked collaboratively, (3) developed clinical skills, (4) showed important personal attributes and (5) felt internally satisfied. Zamanzadeh et al (2019) concluded that a robust multidimensional and nursing-specific scale was not only needed to expand research in the field but was imperative for health and educational organizations who sought to improve success outcomes in their existing and future nursing staff.…”

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Development and psychometric testing of the career success in Nursing Scale

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Zamanzadeh

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International Nursing Review

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Aim: To develop and test the psychometric properties of an instrument assessing career success in nurses. Background: Despite the importance of achieving success in nursing, to date, this construct has been measured using unidimensional or generic scales not fully reflecting career success as perceived by nurses. Methods: This scale development study used a large sample of nurses across 10 hospitals in Tabriz, Iran. Items were generated based on existing literature and previous, research team-led, qualitative study, followed by testing content and face validity of the items. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 530 nurses) then assessed the underlying structure of the scale, and reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha and a 2-week test-retest correlation. Findings: From the initial 73 items, fourteen rated by experts as 'not relevant' and seven with poor face validity were deleted. Exploratory factor analysis further identified 13 poor items. The final 39-item solution extracted four robust career success factors: expected career progress, providing quality care, effective self-regulation, and person-organization fit. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest correlation showed excellent reliability. Conclusion: This multidimensional nursing-specific scale with very good psychometric properties is suitable for individual/group-based decisions. Implications for Nursing and Health Policy: This instrument can assess current perceptions of career success in nurses, so work resources can be allocated to improve policies, services and training programmes to meet career aspirations of nurses and objectives of the organization. Having a robust scale of career success will enable future research in the field of career success as specific to nursing in a clinical setting.

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“…Nurses’ career adaptability is a kind of positive psychological resource that can help them adapt to the organizational environment quickly and make clear decisions in response to changes (Wei & Taormina, ). Nurses’ career adaptability can indirectly improve the flexibility of hospital management, help individuals achieve their career goals and increase their core competencies (Zamanzadeh et al, ). For improving career adaptability, prior research paid more attention to the supervisor and coworkers’ effects (Savickas, ).…”

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Relationship between feedback environment established by mentor and nurses’ career adaptability: A cross‐sectional study

Gong

2019

J Nurs Manag

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Aim The aim of this study was to explore nurses’ feedback seeking, the contextual issues established by mentors and career adaptability in a Chinese context. In addition, this research explored the moderating role of nurses’ political skill. Background Mentors play a direct, important and distinct role in supporting mentees. However, little is known about the relationship between the contextual elements of mentor feedback and nurses’ career adaptability. Design This study was based on cross‐sectional data collected from 303 frontline nurses. Method SPSS 22.0 was used for correlation and regression analysis, and the SPSS PROCESS macro was used for mediating, moderating and conditional process analysis. Results Feedback environment established by the mentor is associated with nurses’ feedback‐seeking behaviour and career adaptability. The indirect association of feedback environment with career adaptability via feedback seeking is stronger for employees with high political skill than those with low political skill. Conclusion When mentors create a suitable context for feedback, nurses’ career adaptability can be enhanced through feedback seeking, especially for nurses with high political skill. Implications for Nursing Management Nurse managers should strive to build a supportive feedback environment established by mentor. It is necessary to improve nurses’ political skills.

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Reaching for the stars: Iranian nurses’ perceptions of career success

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

Self-Identity and Career Success of Nurses in Infectious Disease Department: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Social Support

Self-Identity and Career Success of Nurses in Infectious Disease Department: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Social Support

Development and psychometric testing of the career success in Nursing Scale

Relationship between feedback environment established by mentor and nurses’ career adaptability: A cross‐sectional study

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