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Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress

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  • Huilin Wang

    (School of Bussiness, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
    Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand)

  • Xiao Zheng

    (School of Bussiness, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China)

  • Yang Liu

    (School of Bussiness, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China)

  • Ziqing Xu

    (International College, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok 10240, Thailand)

  • Jingyu Yang

    (Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Gottingen, Germany)

Abstract

This study aims to understand the state of emotional exhaustion of Chinese doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the role of sports involvement in enhancing doctors’ regulatory emotional self-efficacy, reducing stress perception, and alleviating emotional exhaustion. Finally, report the existing problems and make recommendations to the government and hospitals. The researchers constructed a cross-sectional questionnaire survey to collect data. From March to April 2022, using the snowball and convenience sampling methods, a total of 413 valid questionnaires were collected from 13 hospitals in Hunan Province. AMOS 23.0 was used to construct a structural equation model (SEM) with the bootstrapping approach to verify the proposed hypotheses. Doctors with more sports involvement exhibited higher levels of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and lesser perceived stress. Doctors who exhibited higher regulatory emotional self-efficacy had lesser perceived stress. The relationship between sports involvement and emotional exhaustion was mediated by perceived stress and/or regulatory emotional self-efficacy. Therefore, the government and hospitals should strengthen the depth and intensity of implementing the “National Fitness Program” at the hospital level, instead of just holding short-term activities with a small number of participants, but to cover all medical staff with fitness opportunities.

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  • Huilin Wang & Xiao Zheng & Yang Liu & Ziqing Xu & Jingyu Yang, 2022. "Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-13, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:18:p:11776-:d:918145
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