Predicting Psychological Hardiness of Nurses: The role of Spiritual Experiences and Emotion Regulation

Nursing is one of the stressful occupations and psychological hardiness can be effective in controlling stress and maintaining and ensuring their health, so the present study was conducted with the aim of the role of spiritual experiences and emotional regulation in predicting the psychological hardiness of nurses.

The current research was a descriptive-correlational study. The research community included all the nurses of Birjand city in 2023. Among the qualified people, 280 nurses were selected through available sampling based on the Gujarsi and Morgan table (1971). They answered the questionnaires about the spiritual experiences of Underwood and Tersi (2002), the emotional regulation of Gross and John (2003), and the psychological hardiness of Kiamrai et al. (2007). Data analysis was performed with SPSS version 22 software.

The results showed that the correlation between emotion regulation (r=0.531) and spiritual experiences (r=0.587) with psychological hardiness was positive. Also, the components of spiritual experiences were 35.3% and the components of emotion regulation were 29.1% of the variance is explained by psychological hardiness.

The findings of the present study showed that the spiritual experiences and regulation of emotions of nurses are effective on their psychological hardiness and it can be said that with the increase of spiritual experiences and regulation of emotions of nurses, the level of psychological hardiness increases. Therefore, it is suggested that by promoting the spiritual experiences and emotional regulation of nurses, the ground for improving their psychological hardiness is provided.