The Relationship between Perceived Social Support and Life Satisfaction: The Chain Mediating Effect of Resilience and Depression among Chinese Medical Staff

Medical staff are direct providers of medical services and a key element in the development of health services, and their life satisfaction is important to both their work satisfaction and their patients' satisfaction, subsequently influencing the quality of medical care in general. This cross-...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 24; p. 16646
Main Authors Wu, Nannan, Ding, Fan, Zhang, Ronghua, Cai, Yaoyao, Zhang, Hongfei
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 11.12.2022
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Subjects
Anniversaries
Chains
China - epidemiology
College students
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depression - epidemiology
Drug use
East Asian People
Health services
Humans
Industrialized nations
Medical Staff
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Public health
Resilience
Resilience, Psychological
Social interactions
Social Support
Workloads
China
depression
life satisfaction
Chinese medical staff
resilience
perceived social support
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Summary:Medical staff are direct providers of medical services and a key element in the development of health services, and their life satisfaction is important to both their work satisfaction and their patients' satisfaction, subsequently influencing the quality of medical care in general. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the mechanisms underlying the influence of perceived social support on medical staff's life satisfaction. Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants from two non-tertiary hospitals in Shaoguan City, Guandong Province, China. A total of 533 medical staff completed the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale, and the depression subscale of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21). The results showed that perceived social support could influence medical staff's life satisfaction not only through the separate effects of resilience and depression, but also through the chain mediation effect of resilience and depression. This study suggests that reducing the depressive symptoms of medical staff and improving their perceived social support as well as resilience could help to enhance their life satisfaction.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph192416646