Hardiness, Grit, and Turnover Intention during Covid-19 Among Medical Doctors: Role of Perceived Stress

Abstract

The current study was aimed to investigate the relationship between hardiness, grit, perceived stress and turnover intention among medical doctors. Total sample of 300 medical doctors with males (n=140) and females (n=157) with age range from 22-45 years were taken. It was hypothesized that occupational hardiness and grit are significantly negatively related with turnover intention. Second hypothesis was that occupational hardiness and grit negatively predict turnover intention. According to hypothesis perceived stress mediated the relationship between occupational hardiness and turnover intention. Also that the relationship between grit and turnover intention is mediated by perceived stress. It was also hypothesized that female medical doctors had higher perceived stress than male medical doctors. Occupational hardiness was assessed by Occupational Hardiness Scale (Moreno-Jiménez et al., 2014), Grit was assessed by The Grit Scale (Duckworth, 200), The Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen et al., 1983) for perceived stress and Turnover intention scale was used for turnover intention (Bothma & Roodt, 2004). The results showed significantly negative correlation between occupational hardiness, grit and turnover intention among medical doctors. Regression analysis revealed that occupational hardiness and grit negatively predicts turnover intention. Mediation analysis revealed that the relationship between occupational hardiness and turnover intention was significantly mediated by perceived stress. The relationship between grit and turnover intention was also significantly mediated by perceived stress. Female medical doctors have higher perceived stress than male medical doctors. Current study might be very useful in hospital settings to devise intervention programs that are going to create awareness among doctors about the importance of being committed to work and passionate about achieving long term goals along with considering challenging situation as a way to grow hence coping with stressful environment of healthcare facilities.