Job Resources and Core Self-Evaluation as Predictors of Nurse Engagement and Patient-Safety Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study

Table 2

Mixed linear model analysis for predicting nurses’ work engagement (N = 2,618).

Variables	Step 1: control variables		Step 2: explanatory variables
	Beta (SE)		Beta (SE)
Age	0.20 (1.47)	0.889	1.06 (1.27)	0.404
Education level	−3.68 (1.11)	0.001	−2.01 (0.97)	0.038
Marital status	3.11 (1.14)	0.007	1.90 (0.99)	0.056
Work years	0.96 (1.48)	0.516	1.03 (1.28)	0.421
Professional title	1.02 (1.19)	0.390	1.02 (1.03)	0.324
Annual salary	1.38 (1.04)	0.185	0.69 (0.90)	0.442
Hospital hierarchy	0.00 (0.00)^a	—	0.00 (0.00)^a	—
Organizational support			0.57 (0.04)	<0.001
Leader empowerment			0.23 (0.05)	<0.001
Core self-evaluation			0.51 (0.06)	<0.001
∆Restricted log-likelihood			735.72
Variance of hospital level	30.84 (13.88)	0.026	22.40 (10.07)	0.026
Residual	462.59 (12.85)	<0.001	347.72 (9.67)	<0.001

Note. Beta, unstandardized effect estimate. SE, standard error. ^aThis covariance parameter is redundant and the test statistic cannot be computed.