A new multidimensional measure of personal resilience and its use: Chinese nurse resilience, organizational socialization and career success

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-357

  Wei, Wei ^a   Taormina, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Career success; Determination; Endurance; Nurses; Personal resilience; Recuperability

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NURSE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIALIZATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; NURSES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIALIZATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84909968482     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nin.12067     Document Type: Article

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