The Impact of Supportive Leadership and Work-Family Conflict on Nurses’ Well-Being and Job Performance: A Mediated Model

AIM: The research aims to examine Nurse's well-being factors, Job performance, and the Quality of patient interaction in the nurse's work culture. Investigating the impact of Supportive leadership on work components like Work-family conflict.
Background: Nursing professionals frequently experience their well-being factors, job performances, and quality of patient interaction. Work burden has negatively impacted nurses' well-being, job performance, and the quality of patient interactions in Chengalpattu district. The researcher suggests that supportive leadership and increased work-family conflict may reduce these impacts.
Design: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted across hospitals in Chengalpattu district.
Method: A cross-sectional sample of 205 nurses from Chengalpattu district. hospitals were surveyed between January 2025 and February 2025. The hypotheses were investigated using the Mediated model.
Result: Supportive leadership was associated with higher work-life conflict among nurses. Supportive leadership had a collateral impact on all three impact factors(examine Nurse's well-being factors, Job performance, and the Quality of patient interaction). Additional effects were seen in respect to the mediators and the three outcome variables. Having work-family conflict improves Nurses' well-being factors and job performance.
Conclusion: The research found that supportive leadership improves the well-being of nurses and job performance of nurses at the work place. Empowering nurses with work-life conflicts and supportive leadership may enhance their mental health support and workload management.

Nursing well-being, job performance, Quality of patient

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