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Evidence on occupational grief and its association with self-compassion among ICU nurses in China remains limited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To describe occupational grief among ICU nurses in tertiary hospitals and examine its relationship with self-compassion.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this cross-sectional study, 355 ICU nurses from nine tertiary hospitals in Shandong, China, were recruited by cluster sampling between January and February 2024. Participants completed a general information questionnaire, the Grief State Scale for Nurses, and the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form. Descriptive statistics, Pearson and Spearman correlation analyses, reliability testing, confirmatory factor analysis, dimension-level non-parametric comparisons, and hierarchical linear regression were performed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The mean occupational grief score was 35.22 \u00b1 11.19, and the item mean score was 2.07 \u00b1 0.66. The mean self-compassion score was 37.30 \u00b1 4.03, and the item mean score was 3.11 \u00b1 0.34. Occupational grief was negatively correlated with self-compassion (\n                      <jats:italic>Pearson r<\/jats:italic>\n                      = \u22120.323,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.01;\n                      <jats:italic>Spearman<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u03c1 = \u22120.305,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.001). In hierarchical regression additionally including education level as a theoretically relevant covariate, poorer self-rated health, self-rated type C personality, self-rated type D personality, and lower self-compassion were independently associated with higher occupational grief. For working-hour categories, working fewer than 8 h per duty day was associated with lower occupational grief compared with working 8\u201310 h, whereas the &amp;gt;10-h category was not statistically significant in the adjusted model. Self-compassion explained an additional 4.1% of the variance, and the full model explained 20.2% (adjusted\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      = 0.179).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Occupational grief among ICU nurses was relatively mild based on item mean scores, and Self-compassion was independently associated with occupational grief. Measurement and personality-type findings should be interpreted cautiously, and causal effects require confirmation in longitudinal and intervention studies.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1862247","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]],"date-time":"2026-09-14T05:38:31Z","timestamp":1789364311000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Occupational grief and self-compassion among intensive care unit nurses in tertiary hospitals: a cross-sectional study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yuxiao","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, Shandong Medical and Pharmaceutical University","place":["Yantai, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lixin","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, Shandong Medical and Pharmaceutical University","place":["Yantai, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiarui","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, Shandong Medical and Pharmaceutical University","place":["Yantai, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xingru","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Dezhou Hospital","place":["Dezhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuping","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health, Binzhou Vocational and Technical University","place":["Binzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaomin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, Shandong Medical and Pharmaceutical University","place":["Yantai, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"329","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pedn.2014.01.011","article-title":"Pediatric nurses' grief experience, burnout and job satisfaction","volume":"29","author":"Adwan","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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