Virtual Leadership and Nurses’ Psychological Stress during COVID-19 in the Tertiary Hospitals of Pakistan: The Role of Emotional Intelligence
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Virtual Leadership
2.2. Emotional Intelligence
2.3. Work Stress
2.4. Burnout
2.5. Job Performance
2.6. Theory of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
3. Hypothesis Development
3.1. Virtual Leadership, Work Stress, Burnout, and Job Performance
3.2. EI, Work Stress, Work Burnout, and Job Performance
3.3. Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence
4. Research Methodology
4.1. Research Approach
4.2. Questionnaire Development
4.3. Respondent Summary
4.4. Demographics
4.5. Measurements
4.5.1. Emotional Intelligence
4.5.2. Virtual Leadership
4.5.3. Work Stress
4.5.4. Burnout
4.5.5. Job Performance
5. Results
5.1. Testing Measurement Model
5.2. Assessing Overall Model Fit
6. Discussion
6.1. Conclusions
6.2. Contributions, Limitations, and Future Research
6.2.1. Theoretical Contribution
6.2.2. Practical Implications
6.2.3. Limitations and Future Research
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Categories | n = 274 | Percentage (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 35 | 13 |
Female | 239 | 87 | |
Academic Qualification | College-level | 91 | 33.2 |
Undergraduate | 126 | 46 | |
Graduate | 57 | 20.8 | |
Organizational Position | Supervisor/Senior Nurse | 46 | 16.8 |
Clinical Nurse | 228 | 83.2 | |
Job Experience | Less than 3 years | 79 | 28.8 |
4–6 years | 97 | 35.4 | |
7–9 years | 66 | 24.1 | |
Above 10 years | 32 | 11.7 |
Constructs | Items | Loading | Alpha | AVE | CR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Emotional intelligence | EI1 | 0.741 | 0.758 | 0.576 | 0.831 |
EI2 | 0.752 | ||||
EI3 | 0.749 | ||||
EI4 | 0.763 | ||||
EI5 | 0.795 | ||||
EI6 | 0.771 | ||||
EI7 | 0.739 | ||||
EI8 | 0.761 | ||||
Virtual leadership | VL1 | 0.757 | 0.752 | 0.609 | 0.827 |
VL2 | 0.804 | ||||
VL3 | 0.826 | ||||
VL4 | 0.813 | ||||
VL5 | 0.796 | ||||
VL6 | 0.733 | ||||
VL7 | 0.729 | ||||
Work stress | WS1 | 0.791 | 0.793 | 0.653 | 0.892 |
WS2 | 0.853 | ||||
WS3 | 0.855 | ||||
WS4 | 0.842 | ||||
WS5 | 0.698 | ||||
Burnout | BO1 | 0.829 | 0.791 | 0.654 | 0.873 |
BO2 | 0.830 | ||||
BO3 | 0.816 | ||||
BO4 | 0.754 | ||||
BO5 | 0.813 | ||||
Job performance | JP1 | 0.681 | 0.749 | 0.600 | 0.839 |
JP2 | 0.824 | ||||
JP3 | 0.816 | ||||
JP4 | 0.831 | ||||
JP5 | 0.736 | ||||
JP6 | 0.751 |
Variables | Mean | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Job Performance | 3.47 | 0.43 | 1 | ||||
2 | Burnout | 3.01 | 0.49 | −0.23 | 1 | |||
3 | Work Stress | 3.16 | 0.37 | −0.21 | 0.28 | 1 | ||
4 | EI | 4.22 | 0.31 | 0.36 | −0.43 | −0.38 | 1 | |
5 | VL | 4.17 | 0.79 | −0.39 | 0.38 ** | 0.29 | −0.23 * | 1 |
Hypothesis | Beta | T-Value | p-Value | F Square | Decision |
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VL -> Work stress | 0.36 | 2.513 ** | 0.00 | 0.071 | Approved |
VL -> Burnout | 0.31 | 3.151 ** | 0.01 | 0.131 | Approved |
VL -> Job performance | −0.29 | 2.895 ** | 0.01 | 0.114 | Approved |
EI -> Work stress | −0.33 | 4.293 ** | 0.01 | 0.174 | Approved |
EI -> Burn out | −0.38 | 3.125 ** | 0.01 | 0.125 | Approved |
EI -> Job performance | 0.41 | 4.591 ** | 0.05 | 0.197 | Approved |
VL * EI -> Work stress | −0.21 | 2.324 ** | 0.01 | 0.052 | Approved |
VL * EI -> Burn out | −0.23 | 2.697 ** | 0.05 | 0.089 | Approved |
VL * EI -> Job performance | 0.26 | 3.926 ** | 0.05 | 0.153 | Approved |
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Alam, F.; Yang, Q.; Rūtelionė, A.; Bhutto, M.Y. Virtual Leadership and Nurses’ Psychological Stress during COVID-19 in the Tertiary Hospitals of Pakistan: The Role of Emotional Intelligence. Healthcare 2023, 11, 1537. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111537
Alam F, Yang Q, Rūtelionė A, Bhutto MY. Virtual Leadership and Nurses’ Psychological Stress during COVID-19 in the Tertiary Hospitals of Pakistan: The Role of Emotional Intelligence. Healthcare. 2023; 11(11):1537. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111537
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlam, Fahad, Qing Yang, Aušra Rūtelionė, and Muhammad Yaseen Bhutto. 2023. "Virtual Leadership and Nurses’ Psychological Stress during COVID-19 in the Tertiary Hospitals of Pakistan: The Role of Emotional Intelligence" Healthcare 11, no. 11: 1537. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111537