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Serial mediating role of hardiness and positive reinterpretation in optimism and work place stress among young doctors
Yaseen, Faiqa Jamal, Yousaf
Yaseen, Faiqa
Jamal, Yousaf
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2025-06-30
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Background: Young doctors are struggling with extreme workplace stress due to inadequate working conditions, high
patient load and low salaries in a faltering health care system of Pakistan. These conditions necessitate a focus on psycho-
logical resilience factors such as hardiness and positive reinterpretation coping. This study investigates how optimism
affects workplace stress through hardiness and positive reinterpretation coping using a serial mediation model.
Understanding these psychological dynamics is vital for improving the well-being of doctors in under developed health
care system.
Objective: The objective of the study is to explore the serial mediating role of hardiness and positive reinterpretation
coping in the association between optimism and workplace stress among young doctors of Pakistan.
Method: Purposive sampling was used to select 200 young house job doctors from public hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan.
Self-report questionnaires like Life Orientation Test-Revised, Personal Views Survey (3rd Edition), Coping Orientation to
Problem Experienced and Work place stress scale were used to assess the optimism, hardiness, positive reinterpretation,
and work place stress of the participants. All the ethical considerations were taken into account while collecting data and
reporting ndings. Data was analyzed using SPSS and AMOS.
Results: Findings of Pearson Product Moment Correlation indicated that optimism is positively related with hardiness
(r = .32, p < .001) and positive reinterpretation (r = .35, p < .001), and negatively associated with work place stress.
Additionally, hardiness was positively linked with positive reinterpretation (r = .46, p < .001). Furthermore, ndings
also suggest signi cant negative association of optimism (r =−.24, p < .001), hardiness (r =−.51, p < .001), and positive
reinterpretation (r =−.41, p < .001) with work place stress. Findings of SEM suggested that CFI, GFI, TLI, NFI, SRMR,
and RMSEA values indicated the model tness. The serial mediating role of hardiness and positive reinterpretation in
the association of optimism and work place stress was also signi cant as the indirect effect was (b=−.07, p= <.01).
Conclusion: The present research emphasized the sequential interaction of optimism, hardiness, positive reinterpret-
ation and work place stress that advances our knowledge to understand stress management. These ndings can be useful
in counseling and training of house-job doctors working in unprivileged circumstances.