ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1527511
Relationship between Job Resources and Job Embeddedness among Tertiary-level Public Hospital Nurses: Parallel Mediating Roles of Work-Family Conflict and Work-Family Enrichment
Provisionally accepted
- 1Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China
- 2First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
Objective: This study explored the relationship between job resources and job embeddedness among tertiary-level public hospital nurses and the mediating role of work–family conflict and work–family enrichment. Methods: Data were collected from 1,420 nurses at five tertiary-level public hospitals in China. Measurements included job resources, work–family conflict, work–family enrichment, and job embeddedness. A descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and stuctural equation model were used to analyze the data.Results: Nurses’ job embeddedness was 23.57 ± 5.99. Job embeddedness for nurses varied according to age, education, employment type, years of service, work intensity, and health status (all p-values < 0.05). Nurses’ job resources were positively associated with job embeddedness (β = 0.214, p < 0.01). Nurses’ work–family conflict and work–family enrichment had a parallel mediating effect between job resources and job embeddedness, with mediating effect values of 0.120 and 0.044, respectively (p < 0.01). Regarding the specific dimensions of job resources, social supports, and skill diversity have the largest coefficients on job embeddedness (β = 0.288, β = 0.374), and both have direct and indirect association with job embeddedness.Conclusion: Nurses’ job resources were positively associated with job embeddedness directly and indirectly through the parallel mediating roles of work–family conflict and enrichment. Emphasis should be placed on the dimensions of social support and skill diversity within job resources, as these aspects are more likely to enhance nurses’ job embeddedness.
Keywords: Nurses, Job resources, work-family conflict, work-family enrichment, Job embeddedness, Mediating effect, China
Received: 13 Nov 2024; Accepted: 12 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Lei and Yang. 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: Fang Yang, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, China
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.