The Role of Positive Meta-Emotions and Meta-Cognition in Predicting Subjective Well-Being of Psychiatric Wards Nurses

Psychiatric wards nurses are face many problems, especially in the field of health. Therefore, present research aimed to investigate the role of positive meta-emotions and meta-cognition in predicting subjective well-being of psychiatric wards nurses.

This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was nurses of psychiatric wards of Urmia and Tabriz cities in the spring and summer seasons of 2018 year with number of 196 people. All of them were selected as a sample by census sampling method. The research tools were the questionnaires of Beer & Moneta positive meta-cognitions and meta-emotions (2010) and subjective well-being Keyes & Magyar-Moe (2003). Data were analyzed by methods of Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression in SPSS-21 software at the significance level of 0.05.

The finding showed that positive meta-cognitions and meta-emotions (r=0/55) and the components of confidence to interpreting own emotions (r=0/51) and confidence to setting of goals (r=0/44) had a positive and significant relationship with subjective well-being of psychiatric wards nurses (P<0.01), but the component of confidence to extinguishing thoughts (r=-0/08) hadn’t significant relationship with their subjective well-being (P>0.05). Also, the positive meta-cognitions and meta-emotions and their components were able to predict 30 and 39 percent from the variance of subjective well-being of psychiatric wards nurses, respectively (P<0.001).

According to the results, planning to improve the subjective well-being of psychiatric wards nurses is essential through the promotion of positive meta-emotions and meta-cognition. As a result, health professionals can improve their subjective well-being through increasing positive meta-emotions and meta-cognition.