Table 5.

The mediating model of character strengths on the relationship between clinical nurses' mental health literacy and work engagement (n = 1660)

outcome variable	predictor variable	R	R 2	F	B	t
work engagement	Mental health literacy	0.469	0.22	66.573 **	0.408	18.206 **
	age				0.116	2.970 *
	Working years				0.007	0.168
	job title				0.022	0.718
	Daily available study time				0.089	4.036 **
	Do you have a psychologist/therapist certificate?				−0.042	−1.892
	Have you received any psychological training?				−0.068	−2.897 *
Character Strengths	Mental health literacy	0.502	0.252	79.564 **	0.498	22.702 **
	age				0.115	2.997 *
	Years of working experience				−0.119	−2.761 *
	job title				0.077	2.587 *
	Daily available study time				0.031	1.434
	Do you have a psychologist/therapist certificate?				0.007	0.326
	Have you received any psychological training?				0.04	1.773
Work Engagement	Mental health literacy	0.666	0.443	164.175 **	0.136	6.265 **
	Character Strengths				0.546	25.713 **
	age				0.054	1.613
	Years of working experience				0.072	1.941
	job title				−0.02	−0.786
	Daily available study time				0.072	3.865 **
	Do you have a psychologist/therapist certificate?				−0.046	−2.445 *
	Have you received any psychological training?				−0.09	−4.545 **

Note: *indicates P <0.05, **indicates P <0.001