The relationship between physicians' self-kindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference: A cross-sectional study.

Autor: Bogerd R; Department of Medical Psychology, Professional Performance & Compassionate Care Research Group, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Debets MPM; Department of Medical Psychology, Professional Performance & Compassionate Care Research Group, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Keuken DG; The Netherlands Society of Cardiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands., Hassink RJ; Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands., Henriques JPS; The Netherlands Society of Cardiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands.; Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Lombarts KMJMH; Department of Medical Psychology, Professional Performance & Compassionate Care Research Group, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Apr 24; Vol. 18 (4), pp. e0284507. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 24 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284507
Abstrakt: Background: Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians' well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians' professional fulfillment.
Objective: To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physicians' professional fulfillment and whether this relationship was mediated by personal resilience and work-home interference.
Methods: In 2020, cardiologists (n = 374) in the Netherlands participated in a web-based survey. Self-kindness was measured by the self-kindness subscale of the Self-Compassion Scale, personal resilience by the Brief Resilience Scale, work-home interference by the negative Work-Home Interference subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction-Nijmegen, and professional fulfillment by the corresponding subscale of the Professional Fulfillment Index. Using Hayes' SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5, the authors tested the parallel mediation model.
Results: Self-kindness was not directly associated with professional fulfillment (direct effect = .042, p = .36, 95% CI: -0.048, 0.132). Self-kindness was indirectly related to professional fulfillment through individual resilience (indirect effect = .049, 95% CI: .020, 0.086) and work-home interference (indirect effect = .057, 95% CI: .023, 096).
Conclusions: This study suggests that improving physicians' self-kindness may enhance professional fulfillment through personal resilience and work-home interference. Our findings may stimulate and remind physicians to be kind towards themselves as it may benefit them and their patients.
Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: co-author Debby G. Keuken is a senior policy officer at the NVVC. Co-author Rutger J. Hassink was chair of the Quality Committee of the NVVC during the period of data-collection. Co-author José P. S. Henriques is a board member of the NVVC. The NVVC commissioned this project and was a party in the data agreements. In agreement with the NVVC, the authors have decided to make the data available upon request. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.
(Copyright: © 2023 Bogerd et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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