Emotional Intelligence and Compassion Fatigue in Nurses: Mediating Role of Ego Resilience

The previous studies documented that nurses are at most risk population for work related stress. Therefore, the objectives of current study were to examine the connection between emotional intelligence, ego resilience and compassion fatigue in nurses. A cross-sectional research design was adopted to recruit 120 female nurses purposively. The standardized assessment tools used in this study were Emotional Intelligence scale (EIS), Ego Resiliency scale (ERS) and Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale. The statistical software employed to analyze all the collected data was SPSS version 26 and Hayes Macro Process version 4.0. Results demonstrated significant positive association of emotional intelligence with ego resilience (r =.32, p<0.001) and compassion satisfaction (r =.25, p<0.001). Similarly, emotional intelligence was positively predicting compassion satisfaction (? =.18, p<0.05) and significantly negatively predicting burnout (?= -.20, p<0.05) and secondary traumatic stress (?= -.27.18, p<0.001). Mediation analysis indicates that ego resilience (? =.10, LL=.03, UL =.18) was mediating a relationship between emotional intelligence and compassion satisfaction in nurses. All findings are discussed along with relevant literature.