Presenting a Model of Nurses' Psychological Well-Being Based on the Variables of Spiritual Health, Resilience, and Emotional Atmosphere of the Family during the Corona Pandemic and Its Effect on Emotional Distress Tolerance of Nurses

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological well-being of nurses based on the variables of spiritual health, resilience, and emotional atmosphere of the family during the corona pandemic and its effect on nurses' emotional distress tolerance.

The present study was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study includes all nurses of public hospitals in Shiraz, Iran. Due to the corona pandemic conditions, 200 members of the community were randomly selected as the research sample. Data were collected using standard questionnaires of psychological well-being, spiritual health, resilience, family emotional atmosphere, and emotional distress tolerance and were analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM) using SPSS and Amos software.

The proposed model had a good fit. Based on the results of structural equations, spiritual health (P = 0.170 and P = 0.012), resilience (P = 0.180 and P = 0.008), and family emotional atmosphere (P = 0.360 and P < 0.001) directly affected the nurses' psychological well-being. Moreover, the indirect effects of spiritual health (P = 0.083 and P = 0.012), resilience (P = 0.088 and P = 0.005), and family emotional atmosphere (P = 0.170 and P < 0.001) on the nurses' emotional distress tolerance through psychological well-being was confirmed. Only the direct effect of resilience on emotional distress tolerance (P = 0.030 and P = 0.570) was not confirmed in the model.

The spiritual health, resilience, and emotional atmosphere of the family lead to improvement of psychological well-being and also increase the nurses' emotional distress tolerance.