Hope And Resilience Essay

Othman and Mohd Nasurdin (2011) investigated the relationship between hope and resilience with work engagement in 422 staff nurses working in three public hospitals in Malaysia. The regression analysis revealed that hope and resilience were positive factors which related to work engagement. Possible reasons for these findings, as well as their implications and future research directions are discussed. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of hope and resilience on work engagement. Othman and Mohd Nasurdin’s (2011) findings revealed that hope was a significant predictor of work engagement. Likewise, resilience was also found to be related to work engagement. This is consistent with those of previous researchers. As mentioned by McGrath, Reid and Boore (2003), nurses are unceasingly faced with sufferings, deaths and grief of patients and in addition to that have repetitive tasks to accomplish. Under such circumstances, psychological capital (hope and resilience) may possibly to be one of the crucial resources that are necessary for individuals to cope with the demanding events or work conditions. Hence, public hospital nurses who scored higher in terms of hope and resilience were more expected to be adaptive to change, resourceful, and persistent in dealing with workplace adversity, which in turn, engaging in a favourable attitude in the form of work engagement.