TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship between physicians' selfkindness and professional fulfillment and the mediating role of personal resilience and work-home interference
T2 - A cross-sectional study
AU - Bogerd, Rosa
AU - Debets, Maarten P.M.
AU - Keuken, Debby G.
AU - Hassink, Rutger J.
AU - Henriques, José P.S.
AU - Lombarts, Kiki M.J.M.H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Bogerd et al.
PY - 2023/4
Y1 - 2023/4
N2 - Background Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians' well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians' professional fulfillment. Objective To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physicians' professional fulfillment and whether this relationship was mediated by personal resilience and work-home interference. Methods In 2020, cardiologists (n = 374) in the Netherlands participated in a web-based survey. Selfkindness was measured by the self-kindness subscale of the Self-Compassion Scale, personal resilience by the Brief Resilience Scale, work-home interference by the negative Work-Home Interference subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction-Nijmegen, and professional fulfillment by the corresponding subscale of the Professional Fulfillment Index. Using Hayes' SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5, the authors tested the parallel mediation model. Results Self-kindness was not directly associated with professional fulfillment (direct effect = .042, p = .36, 95% CI: -0.048, 0.132). Self-kindness was indirectly related to professional fulfillment through individual resilience (indirect effect = .049, 95% CI: .020, 0.086) and work-home interference (indirect effect = .057, 95% CI: .023, 096). Conclusions This study suggests that improving physicians' self-kindness may enhance professional fulfillment through personal resilience and work-home interference. Our findings may stimulate and remind physicians to be kind towards themselves as it may benefit them and their patients.
AB - Background Professional fulfillment is crucial for physicians' well-being and optimal patient care. Highly demanding work environments, perfectionism and self-critical attitudes jeopardize physicians' professional fulfillment. Objective To explore to what extent a kinder attitude towards the self, i.e. self-kindness, was associated with physicians' professional fulfillment and whether this relationship was mediated by personal resilience and work-home interference. Methods In 2020, cardiologists (n = 374) in the Netherlands participated in a web-based survey. Selfkindness was measured by the self-kindness subscale of the Self-Compassion Scale, personal resilience by the Brief Resilience Scale, work-home interference by the negative Work-Home Interference subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction-Nijmegen, and professional fulfillment by the corresponding subscale of the Professional Fulfillment Index. Using Hayes' SPSS macro PROCESS v3.5, the authors tested the parallel mediation model. Results Self-kindness was not directly associated with professional fulfillment (direct effect = .042, p = .36, 95% CI: -0.048, 0.132). Self-kindness was indirectly related to professional fulfillment through individual resilience (indirect effect = .049, 95% CI: .020, 0.086) and work-home interference (indirect effect = .057, 95% CI: .023, 096). Conclusions This study suggests that improving physicians' self-kindness may enhance professional fulfillment through personal resilience and work-home interference. Our findings may stimulate and remind physicians to be kind towards themselves as it may benefit them and their patients.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0284507
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0284507
M3 - Article
C2 - 37093877
AN - SCOPUS:85153686997
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 18
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 4
M1 - e0284507
ER -