J Korean Clin Nurs Res.  2020 Apr;26(1):1-9. 10.22650/JKCNR.2020.26.1.1.

Influence of Verbal Violence Experienced by Nurses on Organizational Commitment: Focus on the Mediating Effects of Resilience

Affiliations
  • 1Teaching Assistant, College of Nursing, Eulji University, Korea
  • 2Professor, College of Nursing, Eulji University, Korea

Abstract

Purpose
This study was conducted to provide fundamental data on increasing organizational commitment of clinical nurses by verifying the mediation effects of resilience in the correlation between the verbal violence experienced by nurses and their organizational commitment.
Methods
Participants were 167 nurses working in 2 university hospitals and 3 general hospitals located in D city Nurse managers were excluded. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis based on the three-step mediation effect verification procedures proposed by Baron and Kenny. SPSS 24.0 program was used. The significance of mediation effect was verified by performing the Sobel test.
Results
The resilience was confirmed to have a partial mediating effect in the relationship between verbal violence experience and organizational commitment (β=.25, p=.001), and verified by Sobel test (Z=-1.95, p=.026).
Conclusion
The results verifiying that verbal violence experience, organizational commitment, and resilience are correlated with each other, and showing that the organizational culture needs to be improved and the hospital environment needs to be changed to decrease verbal violence experiences and increase resilience in order to enhance organizational commitment.

Keyword

Nurses; Violence; Resilience; Organizational Commitment
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