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Developing a causal model of nurses’ compassion competence based on professional self-concept and work conscience: The mediating role of self-efficacy (case study: Nurses in psychiatric ward of Ardabil hospitals)

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The present study aims to develop a causal model of nurses’ compassionate competence based on professional self-concept and work conscience and the mediating role of self-efficacy and is considered a descriptive and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study includes all nurses working in the psychiatric ward of Ardabil hospitals in 2020. The sample constituted of 200 nurses working in the psychiatric ward selected by purposive sampling and having entry and exit criteria from the statistical population. Data were collected using the Lee and Simon Compassionate Competence Scale, Cowin et al.‘s Professional Self-Concept Questionnaire, the Costa and McCray Work Conscience Questionnaire, and the Scherer and Maddox Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. Following that, the data were examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). Based on the results, the causal model of the relationship between professional self-concept, work conscience, self-efficacy, and compassionate competence of nurses was confirmed according to different fit indices. Professional self-concept, work conscience, and self-efficacy directly affect nurses’ compassionate competence. Moreover, professional self-concept and work conscience through self-efficacy indirectly affect nurses’ compassionate competence (P < 0.05). Therefore, professional self-concept, work conscience, and self-efficacy play an essential role in the level of compassionate competence of psychiatric nurses and targeting these three components by psychological therapies can effectively improve the compassionate competence of psychiatric nurses.

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In the end, the authors of this article express their gratitude to the nurses participating in this research for their cooperation in the implementation phase and to the support of the officials of the hospitals of Ardabil city for providing the conditions for conducting the research.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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  2. Department of Educational Science, Psychological Counseling and Guidance Branch, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

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  3. Psychiatric ward, Isar Psychiatric Hospital, Ardabil, Iran

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S E: Conceptualization, Writing- Reviewing and Editing. E. M: Writing- Original draft preparation. R. T: Data curation, Methodology. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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This work was done individually and in case of any ambiguity while completing the questionnaires, the necessary instructions were provided to the subject in the framework of how to implement the relevant questionnaires. In addition to ensuring the confidentiality of information and preparing people for the research sample to participate in the research was one of the ethical points of this research. Also, common codes of ethics in medical research include 14, 13, 2 (benefits from the findings for the advancement of human knowledge), code 20 (coordination of research with religious and cultural standards) and codes 1, 3, 24 (satisfaction Subjects and his legal representative) have been observed in this research.

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Eyni, S., Mousavi, S.E. & Taghavi, R. Developing a causal model of nurses’ compassion competence based on professional self-concept and work conscience: The mediating role of self-efficacy (case study: Nurses in psychiatric ward of Ardabil hospitals). Curr Psychol 42, 32218–32229 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04200-w

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