ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026
The impact of nursing interns' intolerance of uncertainty on professional identity: the mediating role of career resilience.
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Background: With the rapid development of the nursing industry, the stability and professional competence of nursing personnel have become increasingly important. Professional identity, as a key factor influencing the development of nursing personnel, is crucial to the construction and development of the nursing workforce. Especially during the clinical internship phase, nursing interns face many sources of uncertainty, which may negatively affect their professional identity. However, some interns are able to maintain a high level of professional identity in uncertain environments, which may be closely related to their career resilience. This study aims to explore the mediating role of career resilience between intolerance of uncertainty and nursing interns' professional identity, providing theoretical support and intervention strategies for enhancing interns' professional identity. Methods: A convenience sampling method was used to select 298 nursing students who had completed 8 months of internship at a tertiary hospital in Zhengzhou from February to April 2025 as the study subjects. A general demographic questionnaire, the short version of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS-12), the Career Resilience Scale (CRS), and the Nursing Student Professional Identity Questionnaire (PIQN) were used for the survey. Descriptive statistics of all variables were conducted using SPSS 27.0 software to understand the basic characteristics of the sample. Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the correlations between intolerance of uncertainty (IU), career resilience (CRS), and professional identity (PIQN). The Process macro model 4 (developed by Hayes) was used for mediation effect analysis to test the mediating role of career resilience (CRS) between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and professional identity (PIQN). Results: The total score for intolerance of uncertainty in nursing interns was (38.57 ± 7.20), for career resilience (19.98 ± 2.71), and for professional identity (61.04 ± 9.30). Intolerance of uncertainty was negatively correlated with professional identity( Conclusion: Intolerance of uncertainty directly negatively affects nursing interns' professional identity, while career resilience plays a partial mediating role in buffering the negative impact of intolerance of uncertainty on professional identity. This suggests that nursing educators should specifically help nursing interns actively cope with uncertain situations and strengthen the development of career resilience, thereby enhancing their professional identity.
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