The importance of supervisor emotion recognition for praise and recognition for employees with psychological strain

COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights the Importance of Inclusive Leadership in Egyptian Hospitals to Improve Nurses’ Psychological Distress

Background: The pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of nurses in health services. Nurses work at the forefront of the healthcare system, provide infection control training, and help reduce the spread of misinformation about the pandemic. Inclusive leaders create psychological safety that improves motivation and boosts job performance. Aim: To explore the effect of nurse managers’ inclusive leadership style on nurses’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egyptian hospitals. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study. The study subjects consisted of two groups: managers (171) and staff nurses (1573). The study was conducted in four hospitals (one university hospital, one private hospital, one therapeutic institution, and one health insurance hospital). Three tools were used for collecting data (Inclusive Leader Questionnaire, Nurse Managers’ Knowledge about Inclusive Leadership, and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale). Results: In total, 67.25% of staff nurses perceived their nurse managers as poor inclusive leaders, and only 12.86% perceived them as good inclusive leaders. Regarding nurse managers’ knowledge about inclusive leadership, 76.023% had unsatisfactory knowledge levels before awareness sessions, and only 7.017% had a satisfactory level compared to after awareness sessions, when the majority of them had satisfactory knowledge levels. Furthermore, before awareness sessions, staff nurses experienced mild to moderate psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, and only 8.2% were severe. After awareness sessions, 58.55% of them experienced mild psychological distress, and others became well (25.8%). Conclusions: Nurse managers lack knowledge about inclusive leadership before conducting awareness sessions. The majority of staff nurses perceived their nurse managers as poor inclusive leaders. Satisfactory knowledge levels among nurse managers after awareness sessions improved nurses’ psychological distress. Finally, there were strong, statistically significant positive correlations between inclusive leadership and nurses’ psychological distress.

Does Servant Leadership Control Psychological Distress in Crisis? Moderation and Mediation Mechanism

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the impact of servant leadership on the psychological distress of healthcare staff during the Covid-19 crisis. The authors propose that work engagement mediates and mindfulness moderates the direct relationship between servant leadership and psychological distress.

Methods

Time-lagged data were collected from 277 healthcare staff working at different hospitals in Pakistan. Process Macro version 3.1 on SPSS 23 was used for statistical analysis. For model fitness, we used AMOS V 22.

Results

The results show that servant leadership is negatively related to psychological distress. Furthermore, work engagement mediates the relationship between servant leadership and psychological distress. Moreover, mindfulness is anticipated to moderate the direct relationship between servant leadership and psychological distress, drawing on the social exchange and conservation of resources theory.

Discussion

This study finds that servant leadership is vital for the mental health of healthcare staff. Thus, it extends the utility of the concept of servant leadership to the psychology and crisis management literature.

Stress and Fear: Clinical Implications for Providers and Patients (in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond)

In light of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, we explore the role of stress, fear, and the impact of positive and negative emotions on health and disease. We then introduce strategies to help mitigate stress within the health care team, and provide a rationale for their efficacy. Additionally, we identify strategies to optimize patient care and explain their heightened importance in today's environment.

How and When Does Inclusive Leadership Curb Psychological Distress During a Crisis? Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak

Traumatic events such as a pandemic shatter the assumption of the workplace as a safe place. Nurses face risks of life-threatening infection, which can create psychological distress. Quality of care for infected patients depends on mental well-being of nurses which calls for research on predictors of stress among health care workers. Responding to a call for research on the effects of leadership styles on psychological distress during traumatic events, this paper uses the theoretical lens of social exchange theory and contributes to literature on relationships between inclusive leadership, psychological distress, work engagement, and self-sacrifice. Participants of this cross sectional study included 497 registered nurses from five hospitals in Wuhan. Data were collected with temporal separation through an online questionnaire. Partial least-squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze data. Results show inclusive leadership has a significant negative relationship with psychological distress. Work engagement mediates this relationship, and nurses’ self-sacrificial behavior moderates it. Findings indicate inclusive leadership style serves as a sustainable mechanism to reduce psychological distress during pandemics. It can operationalize the delivery of mental health support in real-time in work settings. Results provide empirical support for social exchange theory through high work engagement to help control psychological distress among nurses.