Mediation Role of Psychological Capital Between Job Stress, Burnout, and Mental Health Among Nurses

Objective: mental health, job burnout, and job stress have an important role in the wellbeing of nurses and their services. the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between job stress and burnout and mental health with the mediation of psychological capital. methods: the participants included 250 nurses from bojnourd city, iran who were selected by the available sampling method. the data were analyzed by structural equation modeling (sem) in spss version 23 and amos version 24. results: structural equation modeling analysis confirmed the proposed pattern. the results showed the direct effect of job and indirect effect of stress through psychological capital on the mental health and burnout. conclusion: according to the results, hospitals and medical centers can benefit from psychological capital and its components to reduce job stress and burnout, and to increase mental health.