The relationship of moral intelligence and social capital with job satisfaction among nurses working in the emergency department.

Abstract Introduction Nurses’ job satisfaction has a direct impact on the quality of their performance, especially in the emergency department, which is a showcase of care in hospitals, since, nurses’ moral performance is greatly affected by moral intelligence, Adherence to ethics by nurses, underlies the social capital of the organization. Methods The present study was a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study. 99 nurses working in the emergency department of medical educational centers in Semnan, Iran, were selected by simple random sampling. Data were collected by questionnaires: demographic information, job satisfaction, moral intelligence and social capital of nurses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and analytical statistics in SPSS software. All P-values Results The mean and standard deviation of job satisfaction, moral intelligence, and social capital scores were 51.24 ± 12.03, 148.48 ± 19.05, and 43.45 ± 7.28, respectively. Job satisfaction did not have a significant relationship with moral intelligence and its domains, but it had a significant relationship with social capital and its domains (P = 0.002). Conclusion Due to the significant relationship between job satisfaction and social capital, Nurses’ satisfaction and attitude toward the job can be improved by creating a context for progress and self-actualization.