The Effect Of Strengths Use On Nurses' Mental Health

Health is the eternal pursuit of human beings.With the continuous improvement of the material living standard,people pay more and more attention to mental health.A good mental health level is a necessary guarantee for the normal operation of individuals,organizations and society.However,the mental health level of some practitioners is pessimistic,especially nurses.Nursing plays an important role in protecting people's health,especially during the outbreak of new Corona virus in early 2020.The mental health of nursing practitioners is of great significance to their own happiness,patient recovery,doctor-patient relationship and so on.In this context,it is particularly important to master the present situation of nurses' mental health and its influence mechanism.In the past,researchers have made a lot of discussions on the factors affecting the mental health of nurses.However,the previous research conclusions have limited reference significance for the promotion of mental health of nurses,and mostly adopt pathological perspective.In addition,as far as we know,there is no study to investigate the influence of individual positive characteristics on nurses' mental health.Therefore,from the perspective of positive psychology,this study takes strengths use as an independent variable,and chooses subjective well-being and depression as the positive and negative indicators to measure mental health.It comprehensively investigates the current situation of nurses' mental health and the influence and mechanism of strengths use on mental health.In this study,575 nurses from 8 hospitals in Tianmen City,Qianjiang City,Wuhan city and Xiantao City of Hubei Province were selected as the objects of investigation.We measured the strengths use of nurses,the satisfaction of basic psychological needs,subjective well-being and depression through the form of online questionnaire.This study includes two sub studies to explore the positive(subjective well-being)and negative(depression)effects of strengths use on mental health.Those results are as follows:(1)The degree of strengths use of nurse is in the middle level,which indicates that the use of strengths of nurse needs to be further improved,and the score of strengths use has significant difference in education level;the satisfaction of basic psychological needs of nurses is in the middle level,which indicates that the basic psychological needs of nurses need to be further improved;the subjective well-being of nurses is in the middle level,which indicates that nurses need to be further improved.The level of group happiness is moderate.(2)Generally speaking,the depression of nurses is optimistic.There is a significant difference in gender in depression score,which is manifested in that the depression level of male nurses is higher than that of female nurses.In addition,different education levels and professional titles will also affect the depression of nurses.(3)There was a significant correlation between strengths use,satisfaction of basic psychological needs and mental health(subjective well-being and depression).Among them,strengths use was positively correlated with satisfaction of basic psychological needs and subjective well-being,and negatively correlated with depression,and the correlation reached and its significant level(p<0.001).Satisfaction of basic psychological needs was significantly correlated with subjective well-being There was a positive correlation and a significant negative correlation with depression.Superiority use and satisfaction of basic psychological needs have a significant predictive effect on two indicators of mental health(subjective well-being and depression),which can positively predict subjective well-being and negatively predict depression.(4)strengths use can not only directly predict the mental health of nurses,but also indirectly predict the satisfaction of basic psychological needs,that is,the satisfaction of basic psychological needs plays an intermediary role between strengths use and mental health;the satisfaction of basic psychological needs plays a complete intermediary role between strengths use and depression,and plays a partial intermediary role between strengths use and subjective well-being.The study proves theoretical and practical values for the promotion of nurses mental health.In cases where the stressors cannot be changed in the short term,nurses and hospital managers can adopt a positive perspective to fully explore the positive traits of nurses.On the one hand,the mental health of nurses can be improved by strengths use;on the other hand,the mental health can also improve indirectly by basic psychological needs satisfied.And then realize the flourishing development of individuals and organizations.