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Effects of the Quality of Sleep and the Mediating Role of Eating on Self-Esteem in Healthcare Personnel

María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes
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María del Mar Molero Jurado
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Ana Belén Barragán Martín
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África Martos Martínez
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José Jesús Gázquez Linares
Version 1 : Received: 16 December 2018 / Approved: 18 December 2018 / Online: 18 December 2018 (12:12:23 CET)

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Pérez-Fuentes, M.C.; Molero Jurado, M.M.; Barragán Martín, A.B.; Martos Martínez, Á.; Gázquez Linares, J.J. Association with the Quality of Sleep and the Mediating Role of Eating on Self-Esteem in Healthcare Personnel. Nutrients 2019, 11, 321. Pérez-Fuentes, M.C.; Molero Jurado, M.M.; Barragán Martín, A.B.; Martos Martínez, Á.; Gázquez Linares, J.J. Association with the Quality of Sleep and the Mediating Role of Eating on Self-Esteem in Healthcare Personnel. Nutrients 2019, 11, 321.

Abstract

In recent decades, organizational research has given special attention to the mechanisms promoting the health and wellbeing of nursing professionals. In this context, self-esteem is a personal resource which influences wellbeing at work and psychological wellbeing of nurses. The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating role of eating in the effect of sleep quality on self-esteem in nursing professionals. The sample of 1073 nurses were administered the Rosenberg General Self-Esteem Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18. The results show that poor sleep quality and type of eating directly and indirectly affect self-esteem. More so, poor sleep quality deteriorated self-esteem through emotional eating, and even though emotional eating facilitated disinhibited eating, this relationship had no significant effects on self-esteem. The findings of this study suggest that hospital management should implement employee health awareness programs on the importance of healthy sleep and design educational interventions for improving the quality of their diet.

Keywords

self-esteem; quality of sleep; eating; nursing

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Food Science and Technology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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