Using affective events theory to conceptualise nurses’ emotional behaviour: A scoping review

Christensen, Scott S.; Wilson, Barbara L.; Hansen, S. Duane

doi:10.1016/j.colegn.2022.05.010

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“…This theory accounts for how features of the work environment and work events elicit employees’ affective reactions and influence their affect-driven behaviors, their work attitudes, and judgment-driven behaviors ( Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996 ). To build conceptual models based on this theory, researchers have primarily utilized pathway segments such as work events and affective reactions and work attitudes, or work environment features, work attitudes, and judgment-driven behaviors ( Christensen et al, 2023 ). A scoping review of nursing settings reported that work-related events included tasks and violence.…”

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Psychological distress as a mediator between workplace violence and turnover intention with caring for patients with COVID-19

Nam,

Wong,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak exacerbated workplace violence and turnover intention among nurses, particularly affecting greater levels of psychological distress. This study aimed to examine psychological distress as a mediator of the relationship between workplace violence and turnover intention among clinical nurses, and to investigate whether caring for patients with COVID-19 moderates this relationship through the lens of the affective events theory. We conducted an online survey of 325 Korean registered nurses (mean age = 30.75; female = 92.6%) who work in clinical settings between August and October 2021 using the convenience sampling method. Psychological distress was measured using the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale and workplace violence using one dichotomous item adopted from the Workplace violence questionnaire. We measured turnover intention using the six-item Anticipated Turnover Scale. Caring for patients with COVID-19 was determined using one dichotomous item. The research hypotheses assume that the relationship between workplace violence and turnover intention could be mediated by psychological distress and moderated by caring for patients with COVID-19 among Korean nurses. We performed a moderated mediation analysis with workplace violence as the independent variable, turnover intention as the dependent variable, psychological distress as a potential mediator, and caring for patients with COVID-19 as a potential moderator. The analysis revealed that nurses’ psychological distress among 308 nurses had a statistically significant mediating effect on the relationship between workplace violence and turnover intention. Furthermore, caring for patients with COVID-19 had a significant further moderating effect on this relationship. These findings highlight the need for psychological support services for clinical nurses at institutional and organizational levels amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It is hoped that these findings can contribute to the development of tailored interventions for nurses caring for patients with COVID-19 to attenuate their psychological distress in a timely and effective manner.

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“…A scoping review of nursing settings reported that work-related events included tasks and violence. Nurses’ outcomes included their turnover intention, intention to stay, and other behaviors (e.g., avoidance, caring, accident-proneness, and unethical actions) ( Christensen et al, 2023 ).…”

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Psychological distress as a mediator between workplace violence and turnover intention with caring for patients with COVID-19

Nam,

Wong,

Wang

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…Affective events theory and job satisfaction Affects, which include moods and emotions and are general expressions of various feeling states, shape people's reactions to others, situations or events (Totterdell et al, 2004). Affects are dispositional resources that explain interpersonal relations in workplaces and influence individuals' attitudes toward the workplace (Christensen et al, 2022;Fisher and Ashkanasy, 2000). Indeed, according to AET, internal influences such as cognitions, emotions and mental states, which the individual gains through his/her experiences and prepares the individual to act, positively or negatively affect the daily moods and emotions of employees, and there is a relationship between this affect state and job satisfaction (Cropanzano et al, 2017;Wegge et al, 2006;Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996).…”

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“…The concept of affect in the workplace, which has been emphasized by organizational researchers since early times, has been particularly associated with the concept of job satisfaction and evaluated as a critical antecedent of affect in workplace job satisfaction (Hersey, 1932; Flannery, 1996; Simpson and Katula, 2006; Seifert et al , 2016; Jeon and Wells, 2018; van Dick et al , 2019). Affective events theory (AET) is an approach that researchers frequently refer to, which explains the relationship between work events, emotions, attitudes and behaviors and job satisfaction (Christensen et al , 2022; Mitchell, 2011). Thus, in this research, AET was used to understand the relationship between the feelings, attitudes and reactions of the subordinates and their job satisfaction due to the task conflict they experienced with their managers.…”

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An investigation of the relationship between subordinate–manager conflict and job satisfaction in a cross-cultural context: An affective events theory approach

Küçük

Konuk

2023

IJCMA

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Purpose This study aims to reveal the association between task conflict and job satisfaction with the mediating role of incivility and the moderating role of self-esteem. In addition, the data collected from the UK and Turkey were analyzed separately, and the aim was to contribute to the literature in this field by analyzing the research model in a cultural context. Design/methodology/approach This research focuses on the relationship between managers and subordinates in organizations. In this study, a survey method was applied to 708 subordinates, both UK and Turkish citizens, working in nine different industries. The obtained data were first analyzed in combination; then, the data of both countries were analyzed separately, and the effect of cultural differences on the research model was investigated.> Findings According to the results obtained, the relationship between task conflict and job satisfaction is negative, and subordinates’ perceptions of incivility play a mediating role in this relationship. In addition, subordinates’ self-esteem level has a moderating role in the effect of task conflict on job satisfaction through incivility. However, there is no evidence of an effect of culture on this model. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by presenting new evidence on the antecedents of job satisfaction. In addition, it is one of the pioneering studies that provides evidence of the impact of the perceptions and personal characteristics of disputants in a task conflict on task conflict outcomes. Furthermore, this study contributes to the limited cross-cultural studies in the conflict and job satisfaction literature.

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Exploring nurses' emotional reactions to and reporting of patient-on-nurse workplace violence: A mixed-methods study

Christensen,

Wilson,

Cummins

et al. 2024

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Using affective events theory to conceptualise nurses’ emotional behaviour: A scoping review

Cited by 8 publications

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Psychological distress as a mediator between workplace violence and turnover intention with caring for patients with COVID-19

Psychological distress as a mediator between workplace violence and turnover intention with caring for patients with COVID-19

An investigation of the relationship between subordinate–manager conflict and job satisfaction in a cross-cultural context: An affective events theory approach

Exploring nurses' emotional reactions to and reporting of patient-on-nurse workplace violence: A mixed-methods study

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