Background: Emotional intelligence is a social skill that controls stress and influences nurse’s ability to cope with the demands and environmental pressures. It can enhance professional skills in health care providers. Aim: Assess the relation between emotional intelligence and coping strategies with occupational stress among nurses. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted in all Critical Care Units at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: Convenient sample consisting of (224) nurses with at least one year of experience at time of study. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used: I) Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. II) The Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale. Results: Majority (92.9%) of studied nurses had high level of emotional intelligenceand more than half (58%) of nurses had high level of coping strategies with occupational stress. Conclusion: There was statistically significant positive correlation between total level of emotional intelligence and total of coping strategies level with occupational stress. Recommendation: Conducting in service training and education programs as needed for nurses periodically to increase their emotional intelligence abilities and urgently use coping strategies to manage occupational stress.
Ali Mahmoud, S., Morsi EL-Shahat, M., & Ibrahim Ismail, Z. (2023). Relation between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Strategies with Occupational Stress among Nurses. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 4(2), 953-968. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2023.310944
MLA
Safaa Ali Mahmoud; Mahdia Morsi EL-Shahat; Zienab Ibrahim Ismail. "Relation between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Strategies with Occupational Stress among Nurses". Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 4, 2, 2023, 953-968. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2023.310944
HARVARD
Ali Mahmoud, S., Morsi EL-Shahat, M., Ibrahim Ismail, Z. (2023). 'Relation between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Strategies with Occupational Stress among Nurses', Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 4(2), pp. 953-968. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2023.310944
VANCOUVER
Ali Mahmoud, S., Morsi EL-Shahat, M., Ibrahim Ismail, Z. Relation between Emotional Intelligence and Coping Strategies with Occupational Stress among Nurses. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2023; 4(2): 953-968. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2023.310944
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