Mediator roles of resilience and intolerance of uncertainty in the effect of healthcare professionals coronavirus stigma on stress


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Kartal N., Arıkan G., Seyhan F., Aydan S.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, cilt.16, sa.1, ss.120-127, 2023 (ESCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/20479700.2022.2079588
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.120-127
  • Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This study aims to examine the mediating roles of resilience and intolerance of uncertainty inthe effect of healthcare professionals’coronavirus stigma on perceived stress levels. Aquestionnaire survey was administered to 327 health workers at a training and researchhospital in Ankara, Turkey. In this context, a regression analysis based on the bootstrappingmethod was performed by running the process macro model. This study determined thatthe level of coronavirus stigma had an indirect effect on perceived stress mediated byresilience (β= .0317). According to thisfinding, the level of coronavirus stigma reducespsychological resilience, and resilience reduces perceived stress. Additionally, intolerance ofuncertainty partially mediates the effect of the coronavirus stigma level on perceived stress.Our results show that both resilience and intolerance of uncertainty levels are mediators ofthe effect of healthcare professionals’coronavirus stigma levels on perceived stress levels.Necessary precautions should be taken to prevent stigmatization of health workers, whichcauses many negative consequences, as our study reveals. Otherwise, stigmatization mayreduce the general functionality of healthcare professionals as an effective risk factor.