ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Current Status and Influencing Factors of Job Crafting Ability in Operating Room Senior Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Surgical Anesthesiology-Division 1, Zhongshan City People's Hospital, Zhongshan, China
- 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, Zhongshan City People's Hospital, Zhongshan, China
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Background: Senior nurses are pivotal to healthcare quality but face heightened burnout and career stagnation, especially in high-stakes environments like the operating room (OR). Job crafting, a proactive behavior where employees reshape their work, is a potential strategy to enhance their resilience and engagement. However, evidence on job crafting and its drivers among OR senior nurses remains limited. Aims: To investigate the job crafting ability of OR senior nurses and its influencing factors within a specific regional context, providing a basis for targeted interventions. Design: A cross-sectional study. Methods: In February–May 2025, 210 OR senior nurses from four hospitals in Zhongshan, China (including 2 tertiary hospitals, 1 secondary hospital, and 1 primary care institution) were selected via convenience sampling. Data were collected using general information, job crafting, organizational support, and professional identity scales. Analyses included descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Spearman correlation, and multiple linear regression. Results: The job crafting score (21 items) averaged 68.04 ± 22.876, indicating a lower-middle level. Multiple linear regression revealed that organizational support (β=0.679, P<0.001), professional identity (β=0.273, P<0.001), hospital grade, and employment type were significant predictors, collectively explaining 75.7% of the variance in job crafting scores. Conclusion: Among OR senior nurses in the surveyed hospitals of Zhongshan, job crafting was at a lower-middle level and significantly influenced by organizational support, professional identity, hospital grade, and employment type. The findings, primarily reflective of a female-dominated sample within this specific context, suggest that nurse managers should develop strategies targeting these factors to enhance job crafting. However, the generalizability of these conclusions to other regions or different gender compositions requires further investigation.
Keywords: operating room senior nurses, Job crafting, professional identity, Organizational support, Nursing
Received: 26 Aug 2025; Accepted: 13 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lian, Huang, Guo, Li and Luo. 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: Xiaoping Luo, 13549855746@163.com
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