Rischio psicosociale e prevenzione secondaria: stress e regolazione delle emozioni in un campione di medici e infermieri

This work describes an intervention of secondary prevention in a hospital; the intervention is oriented to identify and define areas that need to be improved. In particular, the participants had asked for training in inter-professional relationships. The aim of this work is to explore the causes of percieved levels of stress in 231 nurses and doctors due to clinical emergencies, organizational errors and difficulties in relationships. The problems in managing relationship difficulties can be due to different personality characteristics and personal attitudes in regulating emotions at work. The instruments utilized for the research were: The Health Profession Stress and Coping Scale (Ripamonti, Steca, Prunas, 2007) a measure of stress and coping for nurses and doctors; the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Balzarotti et al. 2010) which explores two different strategies of emotion regulation: reappraisal and suppression; the Mini Questionnaire of Personal Organization (Arimatea et al. 2009; Nardi et al. 2012) which distinguishes 4 different personality organizations according to the inward/outward Personal Meaning Organization theory. The results show medium levels of stress due to difficulties with colleagues and patients, and coping strategies that are primarily oriented towards problem avoidance and emotional distress. There aren’t differences between inward and outward Personal Organization in coping and emotion regulation strategies. Inter-professional relationships and personal elaboration styles of emotion impact at work can be areas of interest for continuing professional development.