Table 2.

Pearson correlations between moral resilience and general professional burnout among Chinese oncology nurses

Variable	Mean score	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1. The ability flexibly respond to adversity	2.53 ± 0.74	1
2. Relational moral soundness	2.45 ± 0.63	0.548**	1
3. Moral efficacy	3.34 ± 0.45	0.028	0.011	1
4. Moral resilience	2.79 ± 0.42	0.815**	0.814**	0.397**	1
5. Emotional exhaustion	17.45 ± 8.27	-0.508**	-0.448**	-0.236**	-0.587**	1
6. Depersonalization	6.20 ± 4.63	-0.399**	-0.476**	-0.231**	-0.544**	0.742**	1
7. Personal accomplishment	20.00 ± 8.98	-0.342**	-0.269**	-0.410**	-0.473**	0.400**	0.355**	1
8. General job burnout	43.65 ± 17.79	-0.513**	-0.468**	-0.377**	-0.654**	0.860**	0.785**	0.784**	1

^**indicates a statistical significance at 0.01. r of ranging from 0.0 to 0.2, from 0.2 to 0.4, from 0.4 to 0.6, from 0.6 to 0.8, and from 0.8 to 1.0 indicates very weaken, weaken, moderate, high, and very high correlation, respectively