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This study sheds light on the stress effects of nurses’ confronted workplace violence that spans work and family domains via coping mechanisms and affects both Nurses and their domestic partners. Applying the integrated framework of conservation of resources theory and spillover/crossover model, we estimated venting- a coping strategy that nurses utilize to benefit themselves via the release of violence-related stress to improve their work engagement. The authors also examined the unintended consequence of venting on spouses on the receiving end in the form of work withdrawal. In a matched sample of 285 dual-earner couples, including nurses and their spouses, structural equation modelling revealed that when Nurses face workplace in a given workweek, they experience a negative spill over manifested in weekend venting on their spouse. As a result, nurses discharge their stress and display work engagement upon returning to work. Conversely, transmitted stress via venting crosses over and withdraws the domestic partner from their work during the following week.
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This research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.71573175); Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education, China (18JZD044); Innovation Research Team of High-level Local Universities in Shanghai (No. SHSMU-ZDCX20212802).
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Shah, S.J., Huang, C. Venting out violence exposure: nurses’ resource replenishment causes the life-partner to deplete. Curr Psychol 43, 4234–4244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04517-0
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