Humanistic Studies and Social Researches

Abstract Aim: This review aims to discover the ways burnout and JS influence OCB among nurses.

Methods: Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research till 2025, this narrative review brings together evidence from PubMed and comparable databases, centering on studies involving registered nurses.

Results: Higher JS consistently showed up as a reliable predictor of stronger OCB, sometimes explaining a surprisingly large share of its variance. These effects often worked through mechanisms like organizational justice, social connectivity, or nurses’ own growing sense of professional capability. Meanwhile, burnout, especially its more corrosive elements such as depersonalization and emotional exhaustion, was strongly linked to declines in OCB, whereas a solid sense of personal accomplishment seemed to act like a buffer. Structural empowerment helped soften exhaustion and indirectly lifted OCB, and supportive supervisors increased nurses’ commitment as well as their willingness to engage in citizenship acts. When woven together, these threads formed an integrated model accounting for about 45% of variation in OCB, with ethical climate and workload standing out as meaningful contributors.

Conclusion: If JS is the fuel for OCB, burnout is the slow leak that drains it. Empowerment strategies, stronger supervisory support, and ethical organizational climates appear capable of preserving OCB while simultaneously holding burnout at bay, changes that ripple outward into patient care and retention.

Abstract Background: Ovarian cancer kills more women than any other gynaecological cancer. Culture plays a big role: many patients show stoicism, follow Confucian rules, and believe in fate, which changes how they see stress, how they cope and how confident they feel.

Objective: This review brings together studies that show how perceived stress, coping methods, health locus of control, and self-efficacy work together in Asian women with ovarian cancer.

Methods: We looked at quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies that were written in English and came mostly from East, Southeast, and South Asia.

Results: Studies repeatedly showed that high perceived stress strongly indicated more anxiety, more depression, and worse quality of life that was clearly worse. Task-oriented coping together with family support showed lower distress again and again, while emotion-focused or avoidance coping indicated higher distress every time. In Asian patients, both internal health locus of control and powerful-others locus of control indicated better self-efficacy and better adherence, but chance locus of control showed helplessness and passive behaviour. Self-efficacy often worked as the link that explained how stress, coping, and locus of control finally affected quality of life. Exercise and good nursing care indicated clear increases in self-efficacy.

Conclusion: Mental suffering in Asian women with ovarian cancer is deeply shaped by collectivist thinking, trust in doctors and family, and beliefs about fate. Regular screening with tools that fit the culture and family-based psychological help are necessary so that patients gain self-efficacy, learn active coping, and reach better quality of life.