ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1579410
The mediating role of achievement motivation in the impact of clinical nurses' individual-organizational fit on career success
Provisionally accepted
- Linyi Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Linyi, China
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This study investigates the mediating role of achievement motivation in the relationship between nurses' personal-organizational fit and their perception of career success.Additionally, it examines how the dimensions of pursuing success and avoiding failure within achievement motivation influence nurses' career success perception.A cross-sectional online survey was conducted, with 366 nurses from Linyi City serving as research participants between August and November 2024. Data were collected via a structured questionnaire and analyzed using Amos and SPSS statistical software.: (1) Personal-organizational fit exhibited a significant positive correlation with nurses' career success perception. (2) The motive of avoiding failure negatively influenced career success perception, whereas the motive of pursuing success positively impacted it. (3) After controlling for demographic variables such as gender, age, education level, and professional title, both pursuing success and avoiding failure motives significantly mediated the relationship between personal-organizational fit and career success perception. Discussion: Clinical nurses demonstrate a moderate level of career success perception. Nursing managers can foster a harmonious work environment to enhance clinical nurses' achievement motivation, thereby improving their career success perception. Practical strategies include enhancing personal-organizational fit, strengthening the motive of pursuing success, and mitigating the motive of avoiding failure, which can directly or indirectly elevate nurses' career success perception.
Keywords: Clinical nurses, personal-organizational fit, achievement motivation, career success； mediating effect, Mediating effect
Received: 03 Mar 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Liu, Lv, Hu and Meng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: ✳aiqin Hu, Linyi Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Linyi, China
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