The impact of workplace psychological violence on clinical nurses' turnover intention: the mediating role of perceived stress

作者：Lin Tan, Shouqi Zheng, Xiaoli Zhong, Ying Han, Xia Lin, Yuting Fan, Lin He · 发表于：Frontiers in Public Health · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3389/fpubh.2025.1672644 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Workplace Violence and Bullying、Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues、Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

Background: The global shortage of nurses has become a significant health emergency, and nurses' turnover intention is a key influencing factor, serving as an important predictor of actual turnover rates. However, studies integrating workplace psychological violence, perceived stress, and turnover intention in the same mediation model are still limited, so there is an urgent need to explore in depth the mediating effect of perceived stress between workplace psychological violence and turnover intention. Objective: To examine the mediating effect of nurses' perceived stress on the relationship between workplace psychological violence and turnover intention among nurses in tertiary general hospitals in Southwest China. Methods: Between October 2024 and March 2025, 798 nurses from nine tertiary general hospitals in southwest China were selected by a convenience sampling method for the study. A cross-sectional survey was conducted using the General Information Questionnaire, Turnover Intention Scale, Psychological Violence in the Workplace Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale. The mediating effect was examined using SPSS and PROCESS Model 4. Results: < 0.001). Perceived stress showed a partial mediating effect in the influence of psychological violence in the workplace on turnover intention, with a mediating effect value of 0.129, and the mediating effect accounted for 36.96% of the total effect. Conclusion: Perceived stress demonstrates a mediating effect between workplace psycholo...