A cross-sectional study reveals that irrational beliefs and social anxiety significantly predict nurses' assertiveness, implying a need for targeted training.
Key Points
This research explores how irrational beliefs and social anxiety affect nurses' assertiveness.
Conducted a cross-sectional descriptive correlational study.
Recruited 118 nurses from a tertiary care hospital in Seoul, South Korea.
Used a self-administered online questionnaire for data collection.
Analyzed data using multiple regression with R version 4.3.1.
Assertiveness negatively correlated with irrational beliefs (r=-.57) and social anxiety (r=-.56).
Irrational beliefs and social anxiety positively correlated (r=.67).
Collectively, they accounted for 38% of the variance in assertiveness.