Mediating and moderating effects of learned resourcefulness on depressive symptoms and positive ideation in hospital nurses in Taiwan

• Published in: Research in nursing & health Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 576 - 588
• Main Authors: Chung, Chun-Chih, Lin, Mei-Feng, Ching, Yung-Chieh, Kao, Ching-Chiu, Chou, Yi-Ying, Ho, Ping-Hui, Chang, Hsiu-Ju
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.12.2012; Wiley; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Continuing education; Counseling; Cross-Sectional Studies; Depression; Depression - prevention & control; Depression - psychology; depressive symptoms; Education, Nursing, Continuing; Female; Health participants; hospital nurses; Hospitals; Humans; Ideation; Imagination; Learned resourcefulness; Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Miscellaneous; Mood disorders; Nurses; Nursing care; Nursing Staff, Hospital - psychology; positive ideation; Problem Solving; Psychiatric-mental health nursing; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regression Analysis; Suicidal Ideation; Suicide - prevention & control; Suicide - psychology; Suicides & suicide attempts; Taiwan; Asia; Taiwan; Mood disorder; Human; learned resourcefulness; Health staff; positive ideation; Depression; Hospitalization; hospital nurses; Hospital; depressive symptoms; Public health; Nurse
• ISSN: 0160-6891; 1098-240X; 1098-240X
• DOI: 10.1002/nur.21505

Learned resourcefulness (LR) is important in facilitating mental health in individuals experiencing depression, and positive ideation plays a further protective role in the prevention of suicidal ideation. The purpose of this study was to explore whether LR mediates or moderates the relationship between depressive symptoms and positive ideation in hospital nurses. Participants were 807 full‐time hospital nurses. The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive ideation was both mediated and moderated by LR after controlling for age, job title, and marital status. Continuing education and counseling strategies may increase nurses' LR and thereby enhance positive ideation and reduce risk of depression and suicide. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 35:576–588, 2012